As soon as Veronica Beltran heard from her mom that federal immigration agents had detained her father at a Naperville Menards, she rushed from work to the home improvement store.

But by the time she got to the store on Fort Hill Drive, it was already too late. He was gone, she said.

“It’s ridiculous, the world that we live in,” Beltran told the Tribune tearfully as she stood in the parking lot with her sister, watching their father’s van get towed away. “Harming so many families, separating so many families, so many kids from their parents when they should be focusing on getting the criminals, the ones that harm this country, not the ones who work their asses off and pay taxes.”

Her father, Martin Morales, a Montgomery resident who owns a wood flooring company, was one of at least t

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