‘They destroyed us’: East Chicago daughter, 26, with schizophrenia opted for deportation after their immigration arrest, mom says. She’s now missing in Mexico.

When federal immigration agents raided Martha Porcallo Martinez’s East Chicago, Indiana home on June 12, they also arrested her 26-year-old daughter who has schizophrenia.

They were separated even before she got to Porter County Jail.

When she arrived, Porcallo Martinez, her main caregiver, saw an inmate with her daughter’s surname. She yelled for the other woman’s attention. It wasn’t her.

For a week or two, she had no idea where her daughter was taken. When her lawyer intervened to ask, they found out she was at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Kentucky.

For Porcallo Martinez’s family, the one anonymous phone call to a U.S. Homeland Security tip line in November that led to the arrest has had far-reaching consequences.

“They destroyed us,” she said.