A tamale stand left behind near a BP gas station on Chicago’s South Side was the only evidence that tamale vendor Laura Murillo had been picked up by immigration officials.

Around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, residents started livestreaming on social media and the Citizen App, showing more than a dozen federal agents in a Home Depot parking lot on 47th Street and Western Boulevard in Back of the Yards.

Murillo’s fiance, Jaime Pérez, said that he was on a WhatsApp video call with her as immigration enforcement agents confronted her and she pleaded for help.

“You’re hurting me. You’re hurting me,” he recalled her saying. “And then they snatched the phone from her.”

Witnesses reported multiple arrests, but it’s unclear how many more people were detained at that location and another Home Depot on t

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