Chicago – With the encounter with federal immigration agents Chicago Increasingly, the tactics used by activists and immigrant leaders to fight back are escalating.
The Trump administration has selected Chicago As its latest immigration enforcement mark, it uses transportation sites in heavy immigration areas and targets shift workers outside hardware stores.
“We are not going to back down,” the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem Posted on X on Thursday, looping in suburban arrest footage Chicago Home a few days ago.
Activists and local leaders are also rebelling, trying to stop agents, warning residents and watching the man killed by immigration officials last week.
With the U.S. immigration and customs law enforcement launching a new action this month, the focus appears to be on largely immigrant and Latino communities and suburban transportation sites. Militants say temporary workers arrests are on the rise this week, echoing the enforcement trends elsewhere.
Federal agents were found in about six Home Depot and Menards stores Chicago According to activists, the region led to personal arrest.
Photo: Activists upgrade tactics to fight back when immigrant arrests Spike in Chicago
“Our construction, painting, restoration and beautification of the city’s neighbors have been the targets of these unfounded attacks,” said Miguel Alvelo Rivera of the Latino Union, which advocates New York workers.
He spoke Thursday near the heavy Home Depot in Latino Brighton Park and found Icefield Agents a day ago.
In the circle of immigrants and activists, arrests are often called kidnapping because many agents wear masks, drive unmarked vehicles, and do not have badges on their clothes.
Giselle Maldonado, 23, said her two uncles – Gabriel Soto-Rivera, 40, and Eder Nicolas Jimenez Barrios, 37, were detained by ICE on Monday Chicago When they drive as HVAC technicians. She discovered it through social media videos.
Maldonado said she immediately thought of Gabriel’s two children.
“Who will serve them?” she said. “They are babies.”
Chicago’s The activists quickly sent volunteers to witness immigration agents. They record videos and collect information to inform families.
The activists circulated the license plates of the suspicious ice trucks on social media and participated in a destructive demonstration outside the hotel that the agents were believed to have stayed. Bicycle patrols are looking for agents, while some follow the vehicles on foot and warn nearby vehicles.
A community Chicago’s Literally, there are a lot of noises in the Southwest.
When execution increases Chicago Baltazar Enriquez gradually increased and began buying orange emergency whistles to warn others of ice field agents nearby. He said they are reliable even if the technology fails.
“If they hear this, they will immediately start closing the door and locking the door,” he said of his neighbors. “It works for us. People ask us, ‘Can I whistle?’ Transparent
Arrests are difficult to track. The Department of Homeland Security provided dozens of details, and the Illinois congressman briefed the ICE this week that the number was 250.
However, skepticism remains that certain information spread on the ice includes out-of-state harassment. In at least two cases, U.S. citizens are detained.
Before Tuesday dawn, federal agents, Nom Border Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino of the Los Angeles Operations Center stormed into a house in the suburbs of Elgin. They blew a door as the helicopter circled.
The elected officials thought it was a stunt. The Department of Homeland Security said five people were arrested. They were shot on video posted on Norm’s social media account.
Texas-born Joe Botello told Chicago The media outlet was one of the men he was handcuffed until he showed his identity. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that he was in custody but raised objections to the characteristics of the arrest.
“No U.S. citizens were arrested and they were briefly detained for their safety and the safety of their officials while the House of Representatives’ operations were underway,” DHS said.
Thursday continued, another man arrested in the house was released on Thursday without bonds, and Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling noted Carlos Augusto Augusto Gonzalez-Leon “has no criminal history.” Federal officials said in court records that he had previously been arrested at least three times between 2013 and 2022.
His attorney Daniel Hesler described Gonzalez-Leon as a hard-working worker who is serving his family, including his hospice wife.
In another suburb, an American citizen was attacked by a stun gun and was briefly held by federal agents outside the gas station. U.S.-born Edgar Ruiz sat in a car in a suburban Des Plaines with his brother and father on Tuesday, according to family lawyer George Gomez.
The agents had a weapon, which shocked them. Gomez said Ruiz ran away and repeatedly hit with a coma gun. He was released after being “tied up” by agents. But his father was detained without legal permission to stay in the United States.
The death of a Mexican man at the hands of an ice field agent raises questions about the Mexican president and many elected officials in Illinois.
Authorities say immigration agents are hunting for a person with a history of reckless driving who illegally entered the country. They said Silverio Villegas Gonzalez escaped arrest and towed an officer with his vehicle. The officer was fired because he was worried about his life, DHS said.
Nom The officer, who was not named, was praised for being brave, calling Gonzalez a “criminal illegal foreigner” who refused to arrest.
Many in suburban Franklin Park doubt the authorities’ claims and remember him as a kind family man.
Gonzalez, who had worked as a chef at the time, put down one of his children in daycare that morning.
“He spends time talking to his teachers about anything that happens in the classroom. He’s easy to grasp. He always has a lot of respect for his staff,” said Mary Meier, director of the Small World Learning Center at Franklin Park.
According to the Mexican Consulate Chicagowhich will “supervise” the investigation.
