When ICE arrests you, what happens to your car? In Baltimore and across Maryland abandoned “ghost cars” become collateral damage in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign Above: Sometimes it’s easy to tell when a car has been abandoned after an ICE arrest. Activists say broken windows on the driver’s side are often their first sign. (Graphic by Haley Parsley/Capital News Service) Whenever you leave your house, tell your wife, girlfriend, uncle, mother or father the roads you’re going to take. That way, when ICE arrests you, your family will know where to look for your car. This is the advice that Paola Subervi, a community activist living on the Eastern Shore, gives her immigrant neighbors. She knows the consequences of a lost car, a stolen truckload of tools, or the massive fees of a tow lot. “Everything that you worked so hard to get, to have what you have,” she said, “It’s all gone.” That’s why she and other volunteers spend a lot of time these days looking for abandoned cars. There are plenty of them out there lately, all across Maryland – ghostly relics of immigration raids that happened when there was no one left behind to drive the vehicle home. It’s hard to say exactly how many cars have been abandoned in this way. ICE doesn’t tell local police when they make arrests, and the agency says it doesn’t know how many cars have been stopped. Nevertheless, many officials and activists say these “ghost cars” are an acute problem for families, and a painful side effect of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. People with legal status, clean criminal records and even U.S. citizenship have been arrested from their cars. • The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, in more than 30 interviews, uncovered numerous accounts of families