Francisco Arriaga offers a weekly dinner in the basement of his Chicago church -- but he doesn't put out many tables these days as worshippers stay away, fearful of anti-migrant sweeps.
"Everyone is scared, not just the undocumented," said Arriaga, music director of St Paul's Catholic Church in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, a hub for Latinos.
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