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Aurora resident Elizabeth Pineda said she has been patrolling for federal immigration agents for a few months now, often amid her daily activities — dropping her children off at school, going to the store.
On Wednesday morning, Pineda, 33, said she dropped her three older children off at school and was checking for sightings of federal agents with her younger two children, 3 and 1. Later that morning, she said, she drove by El Paso Grande, a grocery store on the city’s East Side, and heard whistles, a popular tactic used to alert an area of possible federal immigration enforcement activity.
Pineda pulled into the parking lot behind a car believed to be a federal agent’s, and was warned to get out of the way, she said. Soon after, her car was hit with pepper-spray projectiles, she said.