Maria Hinojosa, Mexican-American winner of the Pulitzer Prize and four Emmys, says that Latino children in Chicago face a fear of being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) similar to that experienced by Jews exterminated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

During an appearance on the program “The Weekend,” which is broadcast on the television channel MSNBC, the 64-year-old journalist described part of the atmosphere in Chicago, a city she recently visited and where hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status face the risk of being detained with the objective of being deported.

Like these people, the host of the prestigious radio program “Latino USA” lived in the “Windy City,” but assures that previously there was no fear of ICE raids.

“I grew up in the city of Chicago. I am a proud Mexican immigrant from Mexico City, but the south side of Chicago is my home. Chicago is a city of neighborhoods and we do not like people from outside coming to tell us how to run our city,” she indicated.

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“I wake up in Chicago after a day witnessing a community under siege. And I think about the people who go to see the Anne Frank exhibit in New York. And my head explodes. She is right here, in Chicago. Her name is Anita. Her name is ANITA. And she is invisible. And she is Mexican,” she said, comparing an immigrant child to the little Jewish girl Annelies Marie Frank who, while hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands during World War II, described in her diary all the anguish and suffering that invaded her until her death in 1945, while deprived of her freedom in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Hinojosa's words make sense when you consider the comments of Thomas Douglas Homan, border czar,who at the time said he was willing to deport entire immigrant families regardless of the hard blow it would deal with children accustomed to living in sanctuary cities like Chicago or Los Angeles.