Around 6:30 a.m. on October 28, Miguel Barreno López, a citizen of Spain, was driving to the Indian food factory where he worked near Carol Stream, a suburb of Chicago. He was with three other people, all Nicaraguans. Suddenly, a vehicle pulled up alongside them and forced them to stop. Barreno immediately sensed what was happening. “These aren’t police officers,” he thought to himself. They were agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), the police-like units to which the administration of President Donald Trump has given free rein to pursue and detain undocumented immigrants. Thus began “a nightmare” from which he only began to see the end after reporting his situation in a phone call to EL PAÍS.

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