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Northwest Indiana attorneys are facing a trail of unresolved cases and vanished clients following Operation Midway Blitz’s sweep across state lines.

Attorney Ferdinand Alvarez of Campbell Law, a public defender in Lake County courts, said some of his clients have effectively disappeared — with no contact or known location — leaving local cases stuck in limbo.

“They’re just, they’re gone…” Alvarez said. “It’s very abnormal because usually the law process runs on the fact that it’s such an orderly process. Without having your client there, the whole process just becomes kind of turned upside down. I’m noticing a lot more cases involving immigrants who are unable to resolve their cases because they’ve been taken, and frankly, we don’t know where

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