The Chicago kidnappings have begun
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https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/08/trump-chicago-crime-pritzker-national-gu
Not many taken yet, one of the first was a long-time flower street vendor right outside of the high school where I used to work on the southwest side of the city. ICE has been here for many years and worked within the law. Not hopeful that the new recruits even know the laws...
I haven't seen any downtown and the massive protests over the weekend seemed to happen without any issues.
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Let's see if this one works?
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/08/trump-chicago-crime-pritzker-national-guard-ice-truth-social -
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He was a bit of a hero on local social media...
"In South Shore this week, federal agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in a five-story building that was raided, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours, residents and witnesses told the Sun-Times."
(They ziplined down from blackhawk helicopters, flashbanged and broke their way into apartments.)
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He was a bit of a hero on local social media...
"In South Shore this week, federal agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in a five-story building that was raided, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours, residents and witnesses told the Sun-Times."
(They ziplined down from blackhawk helicopters, flashbanged and broke their way into apartments.)
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But we're so much safer now that the city has been rid of this dangerous tamale vendor.
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The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago have filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its effort to deploy National Guard troops to the state.
The parties are asking a judge to block the Trump administration from federalizing the Illinois National Guard and from sending to Illinois any guard members from other states, including Texas.
"The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president's favor," Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul wrote in the complaint.
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A news producer was violently detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Chicago amid President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration crackdown.
In a statement obtained by multiple outlets, the Department of Homeland Security said the news producer allegedly threw objects at a Border Patrol car and was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.
An eyewitness, Josh Thomas, disputed this while recounting the events to WGN-TV. “They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video,” he told the Chicago TV station.
She was later released without charges, according to WGN-TV and ABC 7 Eyewitness News.\
https://people.com/news-producer-violently-detained-during-chicago-ice-enforcement-11828618
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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A news producer was violently detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Chicago amid President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration crackdown.
In a statement obtained by multiple outlets, the Department of Homeland Security said the news producer allegedly threw objects at a Border Patrol car and was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.
An eyewitness, Josh Thomas, disputed this while recounting the events to WGN-TV. “They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video,” he told the Chicago TV station.
She was later released without charges, according to WGN-TV and ABC 7 Eyewitness News.\
https://people.com/news-producer-violently-detained-during-chicago-ice-enforcement-11828618
@wtg said in The Chicago kidnappings have begun:
https://people.com/news-producer-violently-detained-during-chicago-ice-enforcement-11828618
She was later released without charges
Yes, because she shouldn't have been detained in the first place. There is no accountability here. There entire thing is unAmerican in the extreme.
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Trapped here waiting for the knock on the door or break-in. Promised a free path back home, but guess Republicans lied about that too.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-self-deportation-cbp-home-app
"She desperately wanted to get out of the country.
It was mid-May and Pérez, a Venezuelan mother of two, couldn’t survive on her own in Chicago anymore. She’d been relying on charity for food and shelter ever since her partner had been detained by immigration authorities after a traffic stop earlier in the year.
Pérez, 25, thought it’d be safer to return to Venezuela with her children than to stay in the U.S. Her request for asylum was still open and she had a permit to work legally, but so did a lot of other Venezuelans getting picked up on the streets and taken into custody. Authorities were detaining immigrants regardless of whether they’d followed the rules."
