Carlitos on ICE agents: “If they come, I distract them”

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Carlitos on ICE agents: “If they come, I distract them”

The clock marks six o’clock in the afternoon and Carlitos, whom we protect his identity, looks out the window of the house with a question in his head: — Mom, what will happen if they catch you? He is nine years old and for more than a week, he and his mother, a Dominican immigrant who has been in Puerto Rico for two decades, live with fear as a roommate. They have not left their home since the last week of January, when the raids of the Federal…