A day after authorities deployed pepper spray against demonstrators outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, a group of workers, community members and lawmakers gathered there to call for the release of a day laborer detained while walking to a barbershop in the Little Village neighborhood.

Willian Giménez González, who came to Chicago from Venezuela in 2023, was with his wife when he was detained Friday, attorney Kevin Herrera said in Broadview. Neither Herrera nor Giménez González’s wife have heard from him since, Herrera said, and they do not know where he is.

“These are trying times for the legal system and the rights it protects,” Herrera said. “But the community assembled here knows that people hold the powerful to account. We will fi

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