The incident referred to in this political cartoon could obviously never happen in Arizona. Right? Perhaps the cartoonist is even joking about it happening in Chicago.

Well, maybe not. The local NBC affilliate in Chicago has the story American Citizen Faced Deportation

And now, Gutierrez, who’s fighting for national immigration reform, wants answers.

“You know what this proves to you? That in Arizona, they want everybody to be able to prove they’re legally in the country. They want everybody to prove that they’re an American citizen. Here we had an American citizen, that the federal government, not state authorities, but the federal government, with all their technology and all their information capacity that they have, could not determine, for more than three days, his status as an American citizen. It’s very, very, very dangerous ground to tread,” the Chicago Democrat said.