Hours after federal immigration agents arrested her fiance, Ana drove to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview.

“I walked to the door and told the agent ‘I need to talk to him,’” she told the Sun-Times through tears. “I need to let him know that he’s not alone.”

Ana, who lives in West Garfield Park and did not share her last name out of fear for her safety, is one of many who knocked on the facility’s door Thursday. Since President Donald Trump increased efforts to arrest immigrants living in the country without legal status in Illinois and Chicago, families and loved ones of those detained have been arriving at the Broadview facility desperate for information — only to be turned away with few answers.

The 26-year-old said that her fiance, Tomas Alberto Pere

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