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Using Helicopters and Chemical Agents, Immigration Agents Become Increasingly Aggressive in Chicago
- Federal immigration agents conducted aggressive raids in Chicago starting last month, arresting over 1,000 immigrants across multiple neighborhoods.
- The crackdown followed an expiration in May of a consent decree regulating arrests, prompting intensified and militarized enforcement tactics in immigrant communities.
- Agents used helicopters, unmarked trucks, chemical agents near schools, zip ties on adults and children, and surrounded buildings in neighborhoods like South Shore and broadly Latino areas.
- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker stated on CNN, "They are the ones that are making it a war zone," referring to agents firing tear gas and smoke grenades during operations.
- The tactics spurred tense protests, multiple criminal investigations, federal lawsuits, and calls for state agency probes into alleged civil rights violations and harsh treatment of children.
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Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.
Taking over a building of apartments by helicopter while families were sleeping. Deployment of chemical agents near a public school. Menoting of a Chicago City Councillor in a hospital.
To assault a complex of apartments by helicopter while families were sleeping. To deploy chemical agents near a public school. To handcuff a member of the Chicago City Council in a hospital. Activists, residents and leaders say that the increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are causing violence and fueling the neighboring tensions in the third largest city in the country. “It is they who are turning it into a war zone…
How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens
Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks. After they arrived at 7500 S. South Shore Drive, agents from Border Patrol, the FBI, and other agencies busted down nearly every door. Residents were pulled from their apartments in the middle of the night, including children, some of them reportedly naked.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS…
Critics decry ICE’s escalating tactics in Chicago actions | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
CHICAGO -- Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation's third-largest city.
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