Sitting in her Albany Park apartment Friday afternoon, Ingrid Guanume shifted her fussy 1-month-old son in one arm and cradled her phone between her shoulder and ear. The lawyers have been calling nonstop.

In the back of her mind, she worries her 4-year-old son, who has autism, will throw a tantrum again, hitting and throwing himself against the ground. He doesn’t understand what’s going on or why his dad hasn’t come home.

This has been Guanume’s chaotic routine the past few days since her husband, Brayan Plata, was detained by federal immigration agents while working a landscaping job in north suburban Skokie Wednesday afternoon. Plata was handcuffed by masked officers and dragged into a vehicle, Guanume said.

Tears brimmed at the corners of her eyes as she recounted learning from a fr

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