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The bell rang at Logan Elementary School on Chicago’s Northwest Side and 12-year-old Delila waited outside for her father to pick her up as usual.

She searched the crowd, but she couldn’t find him anywhere. Instead, “I found the landlord’s husband,” the seventh grader said.

The landlord’s husband, along with Delila’s grandfather, broke the news that immigration agents had arrested her dad. Pablo Blancas-Gomez — Delila’s sole parent — had been arrested by federal immigration authorities during a raid earlier that day on Chicago’s North Side.

The girl grew quiet for a second. Then she burst into tears.

Usually she had warned her father about immigration agents before he went to work on construction sites.

“That one day he was taken, that day

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