Rey was just doing his job — cleaning up a yard in Rogers Park one morning at the end of October — when a Black Jeep Wagoneer slowed down, a group of masked men jumped out, slapped on handcuffs and dragged him into the vehicle, then drove off, taunting him as they did.

News spread quickly.

“I was heading downtown with my husband,” said his boss, Kristen Hulne, owner of Patch Landscaping, with her husband Patrick, a newly-retired Chicago firefighter. “We get a call from a guy in the office: ‘ICE just picked up Rey.’ My other employee ran away and hid. The customer called and said, ‘I’m sorry this happened; I took all your equipment off your truck and locked it away in the yard, safe.’”

It’s hard enough to operate a small business. Never mind a landscaping business in a city as weather-sc

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