CHICAGO -- An Illinois man says his 1-year-old daughter was pepper-sprayed by federal agents during an immigration raid near Chicago.

Cellphone video showed the moment Rafael Veraza says he and his family were pepper-sprayed on Saturday morning by Border Patrol agents in the parking lot of a Sam's Club in Cicero, just over the city border from Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

"He started spraying from the front of the car towards the back. Basically, I got sprayed all over my face," Veraza said.

He says the effect was immediate.

"I'm asthmatic. I've been with asthma since I was a little kid," Veraza said. "So the moment that it hit me, I couldn't breathe."

He said his 1-year-old daughter, Arianna, who was riding in the back of the car, also breathed in the gas. Both were briefl

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