On their youngest son’s 10th birthday, federal immigration agents detained a couple who immigrated from Mexico and have lived in Cicero for 18 years, family and lawyers said Tuesday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Moises Enciso Trejo, 41, and Constantina Ramírez Meraz, 43, during a traffic stop Sunday at Cicero Avenue and Pershing Road on the Chicago-Cicero border. They had been driving with one of their four children, their eldest son, to his university to drop off school materials and later meet the rest of the family in church.

“The children are heartbroken and devastated by these arrests,” said Shelby Vcelka, managing partner at Victory Law Office, which is representing the Enciso-Ramírez family. “They are deeply concerned about the well-being of their paren

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