Last month, Raquel heard a knock on her front door. Because she wasn’t expecting company — and her security camera wasn’t working — she worried it might be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
“I’m scared to even open the door,” she said in Spanish. “There’s that fear, an insecurity of ‘what will happen?’”
At first, Raquel, who lives on Chicago’s West Side, said she thought the threats of ICE raids were just an intimidation tactic. The Trump administration had said it would target people with criminal records, which reassured her that she and her family of four would be left alone. (Raquel asked to be referred to by a pseudonym because she fears for her safety.)…