It is not bringing glory to the fascists.
In the pre-dawn hours of September 30, federal agencies coordinated a large-scale immigration enforcement action targeting a five-story apartment building near 75th Street and South Shore Drive, according to a Department of Homeland Security official. The DHS said that 37 individuals were arrested and that the operation involved the U.S. Border Patrol, FBI, and ATF.
The agency claimed the building and surrounding area were tied to activity by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and that those arrested included people allegedly involved in drug trafficking, weapons offenses, or immigration violations.
Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street from the building, told WBEZ Chicago that she saw federal agents dragging residents, including children, out of the building without clothes and loading them into U-Haul vans. She said the children were separated from their mothers.
Assaults on apartment buildings to tear naked children from their mothers is not very photogenic, especially when the assailants are armored up and masked. Were the children members of Tren de Aragua? Were they armed and selling drugs? I could believe that there were a few individuals in that building who were suspected of “drug trafficking, weapons offenses, or immigration violations,” but that doesn’t warrant harassing and harming and terrifying the innocent people who lived there.
Follow the rule of law or GTFO, ICE.
Evidence that there was NO Tren de Aragua in the building?
No ICE fascists shot to death in the raid.
They had no probable cause except that the residents were mostly nonwhites.
I can’t figure out how many laws ICE broke here but it is a lot.
I can tell you that this is a pure SS Nazi fascist class move.
AFAICT, ICE didn’t have warrants to enter and search individual apartments. It was just a sweep. This might have been illegal search and seizure.
They also haven’t followed legal due process rules either.
More fodder for sexual slavery!
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One of the most terrifying things I have heard (via trustworthy podcast) lately is that there may be no legal recourse for compensation or punishment of wrongdoing for these raids.
I wonder how many of your readers remember the 1985 MOVE Bombing? And how long before something similar happens in Chicago, or Portland, etc.?
Despite Pritzker’s rhetoric, apparently Illinois state troopers are assisting ICE by arresting protesters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1nx2lqu/illinois_state_troopers_are_arresting_protesters/
Ice has shot another person in Chicago.
The details are unclear.
ICE has a story that doesn’t sound all that true.
The “wounded individual” with “non-life threatening injuries” is reported to be in fair condition in a local hospital.
I wonder if Jerry Coyne has taken time away from posting foodie pics or cat stuff to say anything substantive about what is happening to his fellow Chicagoans thanks to ICE thugs. Might alienate his right wing commentariat if he did so.
… the operation involved the U.S. Border Patrol, FBI, and ATF.
But not ICE?!?
Did the FBI find any kidnappers or other interstate-lawbreakers that fall within their remit?
Did the BATF agents find any illegal alcohol, tobacco, or firearms?
More details from the Chicago raid.
It was mindless terrorism.
Out of many dozens rounded up they arrested 37.
Two of these were supposedly Tren De Aragua gang members.
How do they know that? I don’t believe anything ICE says.
BTW, it isn’t illegal to belong to a gang.
It is illegal to break the laws.
One was a US citizen with an arrest warrant.
For what? Failure to appear to pay a parking ticket?
At the most, they arrested 3 criminals.
FWIW, this building was a slum in poor condition.
It was in foreclosure, owned by a bank.
The people living there were the poor of the poor.
ICE trashed the building, ripping off half the doors.
A lot of people lost what few possessions they owned.
But they’re just following orders!
ICE shot another person in Chicago yesterday.
That Mr. Pritzker is actually Governor of Illinois Pritzker.
The details of the incdent aren’t clear right now.
ICE just shoots people and then lies about it as the Governor points out.
They lied about the guy they shot last week in Chicago.
They are lying in this case as well.
They claimed they were rammed by this woman.
Eyewitness reports say it started when ICE rammed another vehicle.
They said she drove herself to the hospital and wasn’t seriously wounded.
She was actually found some distance away, seriously wounded, and taken to the hospital.
They said she had a semi-automatic rifle so they shot her.
This remains to be confirmed. She may or may not have had a rifle.
And police force in our government has the power to break down every door in an apartment building with hundreds of people without warrants. The fourth amendment is completely violated here.