Diego Castro was helping his Uber passenger unload her suitcase from the trunk last Friday morning when a black SUV pulled up head-on in front of his car.

Moments later, U.S. Border Patrol agents were asking to see proof of his legal status in the United States. Within minutes, he was handcuffed and taken away. Photographers from the Chicago Sun-Times and another local news outlet were at the scene and captured the arrest.

For 10 hours, his family had no idea where he was taken.

Castro and his family had spent weeks anxiously watching President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign play out in the Chicago area, worried this could happen to any one of them. That’s despite the fact that he and his relatives have protected status and pending asylum cases.

“We’ve already seen that

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