CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some veterans say there is a painful tension to see the immigration enforcement that's impacted the very communities that raised them. While others say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are doing an essential job.

"They really serve the country from the heart," Navy veteran Esteban Burgoa said.

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Burgoa remembers serving alongside soldiers dressed head to toe in tactical gear ready to protect those back in the U.S. But now he says he's seeing that same warzone in Chicago's streets.

But there is a difference.

"No name tags to identify them, unmarked cars," Burgoa said. "Never, ever raise our arms against our country, our citizen, and that's what I see right now."

As a first-generation immigrant from

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