Sisters Milagros Pelayo and Yessenia Garcia got a call Friday morning while protesting the treatment of detainees outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in west suburban Broadview.

It was their dad, Rosalio Pelayo Salgado, who was arrested by federal immigration agents last week and was being held in the facility.

“He said he saw us on the news,” said Pelayo, 22. “He knows we’re out here. He said he feels proud of us.”

Pelayo and Garcia arrived at the ICE processing facility at 5 a.m., hoping for a chance to see their father.

Instead, they learned about the conditions he has lived under since his arrest — and that he would be deported Saturday.

Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them

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