One minute Maria was selling tamales from her food cart in Chicago's West Side. The next, her son said, she was bundled into a van, the latest victim of U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigrants.
Maria's family was left to pick up the pieces, removing her cart, food containers and umbrella before launching a frantic search for the Mexican-born mother of seven who has lived in the United States for two decades, albeit undocumented.
By Saturday morning, 24 hours after her arrest, her family had still learned "nothing" about her status from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency conducting aggressive raids in and around the nation's third largest city.
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