>> As we mentioned earlier, federal immigration agents are confirming they arrested a man outside a Chicago charter school in Gage Park yesterday.

The rest is the latest action sparking fear in immigrant communities across Chicago.

So Trump administration's mass deportation efforts began.

We spoke with 2 local families about the risks they face when taking their kids to school.

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We change the names of 2 mothers sharing their experiences and how life has changed.

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It leaves on documented parents like Rose and Sandra questioning whether to take the children to school.

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>> To support families in case ICE agents appear at schools, however, for mothers like Sandra who asked for American citizen children, the thought of leaving her 17 year-old son to care for siblings has been difficult to accept the to come >> them are the kind you want to.

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>> With the lack of information and how many people have been detained by ICE.

So Santa, gobble the youth director for immigrants service organization says the current ice crackdown to creating fear and trauma.

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gobble says that fear has created a devastating impacts that go far beyond the decline in after-school participation.

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>> To provide a streamlined path to citizenship for families who have spent decades building their lives in the U.S. now living in fear facing deportation to countries they left behind.

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>> and some older people in Chicago teachers, union members are calling on CPS to do more to keep schools safe for students and their families.

Meanwhile, CPS says