One Wednesday morning, Adam Gonzalez’s day started like any normal day. He got his 17-month-old son ready for day care, put him in the car and drove to a school in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood. As he approached Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center, which is located in a shopping plaza, he noticed two unfamiliar cars out front. Immediately, Gonzalez felt worried, as if something might have happened — maybe it was a car accident, since he saw flashing lights. But as he cautiously got closer to the vehicles to see what was happening, he noticed that the vehicles weren’t police cars with blue lights. Then he saw men wearing black body armor, some masked, and his heart sank. It became clear they were Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

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