CHICAGO — As the sun set on a recent evening, families lined up to buy elotes from Olga Martínez, a street vendor in Little Village, one of Chicago’s largest immigrant neighborhoods.

She was still holding on to hope that President Donald Trump wouldn’t follow through on his promise of militarized immigration arrests in the nation’s third-largest city. But reality had begun to sink in, she said, and she decided to close her cart Friday as news of federal agents coming to Chicago intensifies.

“That’s if I don’t hear about operations happening nearby sooner,” she added, feeding leftover corn to pigeons at her feet. “I’m trying to save as much money as I can to stay home, because God knows how long they’ll be here for.”

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