A “shadow” congressional hearing Friday about the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago included tearful testimony from a 19-year-old woman left to take care of her special needs sister after her mother was detained.

The woman, one of six witnesses at the hearing, said her mother, who had been in the U.S. for 23 years, is currently being detained in El Paso as a result of U.S. Department of Homeland Security enforcement in Chicago. Genesis, who did not want to disclose her last name, said her mother also left behind a 16-year-old daughter who is developmentally disabled.

“I’m only 19 years old. I’m still a kid who has so much to learn and yet I feel like in the last four weeks, I’ve grown up fast, taking all of my mom’s responsibilities as fast as she was take

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