{"id":301026,"date":"2025-10-13T22:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:29:18","slug":"ice-agents-spotted-targeting-rideshare-drivers-at-chicago-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301026\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents spotted targeting rideshare drivers at Chicago airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/06D6D1FA1E9D16B307EACB7B15863170.jpg\" alt=\"ICE targets rideshare drivers, riders at Chicago airport, witnesses say\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; There have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sightings of ICE agents<\/a> at both O\u2019Hare and Midway airports in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">When ICE was spotted at O\u2019Hare questioning people, drivers formed a text chain to alert other drivers to the presence of federal agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They reported a white van that was in the lot. It looks like the vans that were here a few days ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Rideshare drivers have been sharing pictures and videos of federal agents approaching drivers while they are stopping to eat a meal or while they are out of their cars praying.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They believe nine drivers were detained by ICE, but Homeland Security has not confirmed any numbers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Uber and Lyft drivers use an airport lot as a waiting station to respond to ride requests from passengers at the airport.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">In response, the drivers are donating money directly to the spouses and families of those drivers who were taken away from this parking lot.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">One driver, who did not want to be seen on camera, described what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This holding lot is usually full of drivers waiting to provide rides for air travelers. It was not as crowded when Fox 32 was there on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Chicago\u2019s Aviation Department referred all inquiries to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/immigration\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Immigration<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/midway\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midway International Airport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/ohare-transportation\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O&#8217;Hare International Airport<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; There have been sightings of ICE agents at both O\u2019Hare and Midway airports in Chicago.\u00a0 What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,5386,1818,409,56899,50,58322,522,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-301026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-midway","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ohare-transportation","16":"tag-transportation","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115369225014192272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}