ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- A Chicago-area family trusted a person posing as an immigration lawyer to help free their father, who is being detained by ICE. They said thousands of dollars were stolen in their desperation.

The scam might be targeting others fighting for the freedom of loved ones.

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Sitting in the Romeoville home they share with their parents and siblings, Delia Davila and her sister Silvia have spent countless hours trying to get their father, Roberto, freed from ICE custody after his arrest on Oct. 19, when he was pulled over on the side of the road on his way back from buying groceries in Bolingbrook.

"There was no warrant. There was nothing against my dad," Delia Davila said. "So he asked them, 'Why are you taking m

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