A Hillsboro teenager’s emotional account of how immigration enforcement is affecting his own family and community has gone viral after he spoke at a Hillsboro City Council meeting earlier this week.

The teen, 16-year-old Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Chavez, opened up about his personal experience at a packed meeting in Hillsboro’s auditorium on Tuesday night where speaker after speaker decried a recent escalation in immigration detentions, saying federal agents are violently pulling people out of cars, arresting them in front of businesses and schools and tearing families apart.

“I just want to tell you guys that I’m scared for my parents to walk out there, to walk out of their house, because I might not be able to say goodbye to them if they go to work. I might not ever be able to say bye or see

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