Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

When children began coming to his shop by themselves holding their family’s grocery lists, bakery owner Francisco Cuadra knew “things are getting bad.”

As Operation Midway Blitz’s trail bled from Illinois into Northwest Indiana neighborhoods, Cuadra, owner of Santa Maria’s Bakery in Hammond, said some of his customers became too afraid to go out and get bread and basic necessities, regardless of their citizenship status.

“Once it started showing up on Facebook on the Hammond pages, people taking photos of ICE out on Columbia Avenue, I noticed business drop down a lot,” Cuadra said. “Just like how once the rumors began in Chicago, they saw their business drop. Our customers have had to send their kids to pick up products, because the parents a

See Full Page