Restaurants closing to protect employees from raids. Clothing stores, laundromats and auto repair shops seeing their customers melt away in an atmosphere of growing fear.

For weeks, federal immigration agents’ incursion into Chicago-area neighborhoods has had a chilling effect on local commerce. Now, agents’ activity has resulted in another shocking way to destabilize our workforce and threaten communities’ well-being. The Nov. 7 editorial summed things up well: “‘Immigration enforcement’ and ‘day care center’ do not belong in the same headline.”

In a well-publicized incident last week, armed and masked federal agents pulled a day care teacher from Chicago’s Rayito del Sol Early Learning Center as young children, parents and her co-workers looked on amid the horror and chaos. This presc

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