#ICE #Chicago #parenting #trama"The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.'Mommy, mommy, mommy,' he repeated, clinging to her.His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard 'immigration raid.' Then: 'tear gas.'She abandoned her grocery cart and drove as fast as she could to her toddler and his 14-month-old brother, who, on that warm October Friday, were among the hundreds of Chicago children caught suddenly in the turmoil of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.Parents, teachers and caregivers have been grappling ever since with how to explain to children what they’d seen: how much to tell them so they know enough to stay safe, but not too much to rob them of their childhood. A toddler shouldn’t know what a tear gas canister is, Kucich said.'I don’t know how to explain this to my kids.' Chicago’s children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdownsThe SUV eventually drove away, the cloud of smoke cleared, and parents arrived. 'What’s happening?' a girl cried, over and over.Kucich’s son, who is white, now worries about his nanny, a U.S. citizen from Guatemala. He asks where she is and when she’s coming. He jumps at the sound of sirens. His mother called their pediatrician for a therapist referral.Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us,'referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-30-2025https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-trump-crackdown-school-children-c9a19835cac13c0fbbebcc9f4bf4f0a2
