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Midwatch @chicagotribune | previously @NapervilleSun @MontereyHerald @ucsantabarbara | [email protected]
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2021
Our latest: Latino US citizens and lawful permanent residents racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago. Agents drove haphazardly in convoys, making random stops, questioning street vendors, and targeting workers at construction, landscaping, and roofing
chicagotribune.com
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
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Two teenage brothers have been on the front lines of Midway Blitz, following the Feds and helping their neighbors. This is their story. “If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that.” By @tesskenny12
https://t.co/OIdTVN8j37
chicagotribune.com
The wave of youth activists who have been galvanized into action by “Operation Midway Blitz” follow a long tradition paved around the world by young activists.
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New: Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone.
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Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans...
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///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down, sources tell the Tribune.
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Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune.
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"Agents drive up and down residential streets and stop mostly brown people seemingly at random — landscapers, pedestrians, construction workers — demanding to know, 'Where were you born?' or 'Are you a U.S. citizen?'" via @royalpratt and @LAURA_N_ROD
https://t.co/YNmEI9b6sx
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Instead of carefully targeted arrests long practiced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration has deployed roving groups of masked Border Patrol agents, who work wi…
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Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out and arrested her. Her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released without charges. Read the story: https://t.co/akRpMJQU1Q
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Videos on social media show Ricardo Aguayo Rodriguez struggling on the ground while a federal immigration agent keeps him in a headlock during an arrest in Melrose Park, IL. “Por favor, amigo,” he pleads as he groans and yells in pain. w/ @WescottImages:
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Videos shared on social media show man struggling on the ground while a federal agent kept him in a headlock.
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NEWS: Ruben Torres Maldonado is coming home to his wife, sick daughter and four-year old son. An immigration judge granted the 40-year-old Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment. Story coming
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Ellis says they only explanation for what she's been seeing is that her TRO is simply not clear -- telling Bovino there's no way he would just ignore it, is there? "So I thought it would be a really good idea to go through it so that we are on the same page," she says.
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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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New: Gov. JB Pritzker and the state GOP House leader bickered in texts after a conservative influencer filmed Pritzker’s home & the GOP leader refused to publicly condemn it, texts obtained @chicagotribune show — story here with @PetrellaReports
https://t.co/waCfnpdcWP
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“I am no longer the Larry Hoover people talk about in the papers, or the crime figure described by the government.” Gangster Disciples founder petitions Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency https://t.co/OWGYkGXfOI w/@tesskenny12 @PetrellaReports
chicagotribune.com
The petition comes after President Donald Trump in May commuted the federal life sentence of Chicago-born Hoover.
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Developing: At least five people, including vendors and a man doing laundry, were taken during a Border Patrol raid led by Gregory Bovino in Little Village. Little Village, known as the ‘Mexico of the Midwest,’ is the second-highest grossing shopping district in Chicago.
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The Illinois secretary of state’s office is reminding everyone — including ICE agents — to refrain from swapping or altering state license plates amid concerns of plate tampering as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. https://t.co/1IEFvIAIbv
chicagotribune.com
Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office cautioned against the illegal practice of flipping and modifying state-issued license plates amid reports that agency vehicles may have changed pl…
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Mother of late woman featured in DHS’s Midway Blitz campaign says her daughter wouldn’t support it: ‘The Department of Homeland Security says the immigration enforcement operation in Chicago is named in Katie’s honor. But Katie would not have wanted this.’
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My daughter Katie would not want to be associated with an operation in which kids witness their parents being taken into custody.
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ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: “He belongs with her.” I spent yesterday afternoon with Ofelia Torres and her mother, Sandibell, talking about Ruben Torres. Here’s the story https://t.co/ESFKrJNDnf
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Suburban mom comes home to find “at least three people in fatigues and masks coming out from her backyard” “And I said, ‘What the heck is that?’” said Fisher, a 49-year-old mother of three. “I did not say heck.” via @oliviaolanderr + @adrianamperezr
https://t.co/CfFW6x5smL
chicagotribune.com
Neighbors said a man being detained by federal agents ran away, prompting officers to search backyards and stop vehicles.
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