Opinion: These are the civic lessons that ICE is teaching our kids

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Although we have replaced our jack-o-lanterns and skeletons with evergreen wreaths and festive lights, the specter of masked Halloween figures continues to haunt our community. In my leafy suburb just outside of Chicago, on Oct. 31, our normally bustling evening of trick-or-treating was eerily quiet. Federal immigration agents’ aggressive and terrifying actions on Halloween meant hundreds of children stayed home, their families too petrified to escort their pint-size dinosaurs and superheroes door to door.

Federal agents’ operations are traumatizing a generation already scarred by COVID-19. Community raids have prompted school lockdowns and nervous texts from high schoolers as helicopters hover above, teaching students troubling lessons