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Inside a modest second-floor apartment on Chicago’s Southwest Side, three children went without sleep waiting for their mom to finally come home.

Their dad, with a family friend, had driven through the night to get her. More than five hours in the dark to pick her up from the dingy jail in rural Indiana, five hours more on the way back. They arrived home just as the sky began to lighten that early Tuesday morning.

When Patricia Quishpe stepped out, her kids rushed into the cold morning air to wrap her in their arms. Her hijos . The word she had cried when the Ecuadorian mother of three was arrested by Border Patrol agents at the Swap-O-Rama flea market in mid-October, during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown dubbed Operation

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