Minutes later, with federal immigration agents banging on the front door of her apartment in Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood, she had an answer. Maria’s husband was one of an as-yet-unknown number of people taken into custody Sunday morning in what appeared to be the opening salvo in the long-promised — and much-feared — federal immigration blitz on Chicago.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with several other federal agencies, began what they called "enhanced targeted operations" on Sunday in Chicago.

Amid cold, wet and gloomy weather conditions, hundreds of people gathered Sunday at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in West Dallas to protest changes to U.S. immigration policy adopted by President Donald Trump last week.