Good morning Chicago.
Saying goodbye to their mom, Sam and Ben Luhmann walked out the screen door of their West Chicago home on a recent weekday morning.
A few minutes before 7:30 a.m., Ben pulled their midsize sedan out of the garage while Sam stood in the driveway, adjusting the straps on his shoulders and checking his phone.
But the brothers were not going to ring the first bell at school. They rushed to find ICE.
At 16 and 17 years old, Sam and Ben have been on a mission for the past two months to monitor, investigate and record federal immigration activity throughout Chicago. The brothers say the endeavor came naturally after growing up in a family where social justice and civic duty were as much a part of their homeschool curriculum as math and science.
“If I have the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I’ll be totally up for it,” Ben said.
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