What to know about Donald Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement raids in Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nLincoln Park Ald. Timmy Knudsen, 43rd, said masked immigration agents hit \u201cevery corner of the ward\u201d he represents, one of the city\u2019s wealthiest communities. A video taken at Racine and Schubert Avenues shows four agents surrounding a Latino man and leading him away from million-dollar properties, placing him into an SUV and driving off.<\/p>\n
Ald. Scott Waguespack, 32nd, said\u00a0agents grabbed a landscaper and two construction workers and appeared to be going through side streets picking up workers. He got into a shouting match with an immigration agent near St. Mary of the Angels school because they were doing U-turns and \u201cdriving like lunatics\u201d near children doing a fun run.<\/p>\n
Knudsen approached masked agents in another area and asked them questions he learned through \u201cknow-your-rights\u201d trainings as well as his previous work handling asylum cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing here? What are you looking for? Do you have a warrant?\u201d he said he asked.<\/p>\n
They didn\u2019t respond.<\/p>\n
Instead, activists confronted agents, shouting at them and blowing their whistles to alert the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hope is them whistling and yelling at least keeps ICE moving along,\u201d Knudsen said.<\/p>\n
Midafternoon, agents tear gassed the Lakeview neighborhood near Lakewood Avenue and Henderson Street after a crowd of residents demanded they leave.<\/p>\n
Neighbors and congressional staff said the chaotic scene unfolded when federal immigration agents arrested at least one construction worker at a home on North Lakewood Avenue.<\/p>\n
Employees appeared to be on a lunch break out front when agents jumped over the gate to get to them, residents told U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
A resident of the building, visibly overwhelmed, declined to comment Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The home was left half-finished with at least four ladders hanging on the side of the building and tape in the windows.<\/p>\n
Neighbors with whistles confronted the ICE agents and demanded they get out.<\/p>\n
Videos from the scene show two vans used by the agents, one of which is slowly driving backwards. Most of the gathered residents were on the sidewalk with a few walking in the street near the vehicles, chanting \u201ctraitors\u201d and \u201cgo home.\u201d They didn\u2019t appear to touch it or the agents before tear gas is deployed.<\/p>\n
Bruce Turner, 64, came outside when he heard the commotion and called the tear gas use \u201cunprovoked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have one car going backwards, one car going forward, and people are \u2026 yelling at them,\u201d he said. \u201cNobody touched them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another resident, who declined to give her name for fear of retribution, said she was at home working when she heard screaming and whistles, telltale signs that preface ICE sightings. She, too, criticized the feds\u2019 use of tear gas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no warning, no warning at all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ald. Bennett Lawson, 44th, who represents Lakeview and Wrigleyville, released a statement condemning the actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cICE\u2019s un-American and undemocratic tactics of fear and intimidation in our neighborhoods are a direct attack on everything Chicago stands for \u2014 inclusion, compassion and love,\u201d Lawson said. \u201cWe have a proud history of welcoming people of all backgrounds in our community and our commitment to those principles are stronger now than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Outside the Nettelhorst Fine and Performing Arts School on Broadway Avenue in Lakeview, a neighborhood resident volunteering as an ICE-watcher kept an eye out for agents. While the neon vest-clad volunteer stood guard, a man dropped off a set of orange whistles into a Little Free Library box outside the school. He said he was 3-D printing the whistles by the hundreds.<\/p>\n
Videos circulating on social media showed agents within blocks of DePaul University. In a message to students and faculty Friday, its president Robert Manuel said the school had received confirmed reports of nearby federal immigration activity. He noted classes, research and other campus activities are proceeding as scheduled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff are our highest priority,\u201d Manuel wrote. \u201cNow more than ever, we must look out for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Laugh Factory in a social media post Friday said that one of its employees was among those detained. Per the comedy club, its night manager was detained by \u201cmasked federal agents\u201d outside of its Lakeview location at 3175 N. Broadview St. The club did not return immediate requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, federal immigration officials were in Little Village<\/a> \u2014 a Southwest Side neighborhood that is home to Chicago\u2019s largest Mexican American population \u2014 on Thursday for the\u00a0second time in two days. Half a dozen people were detained in the raids Thursday, including a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, a student at Benito Ju\u00e1rez Community Academy in the Pilsen neighborhood. At least seven people were also taken into custody Wednesday.<\/p>\nThis is a developing story.<\/p>\n
Chicago Tribune reporters Talia Soglin, Kate Armanini and Kate Perez contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most of fall, Trump\u2019s immigration agents have set out every day to scour Chicago neighborhoods where immigrants…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[55072,960,62021,13045,163899,5410,5386,1818,6501,409,20523,141702,277],"class_list":{"0":"post-329965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-cbp","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-customs-and-border-patrol","11":"tag-deportation","12":"tag-federal-immigration-agents","13":"tag-ice","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-immigrants","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","19":"tag-midway-blitz","20":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115431081487793382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329965","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=329965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}