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Illinois lawmakers look at limiting federal immigration agents as Broadview shrinks designated protest area  Chicago Tribune Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests  The Guardian How Broadview, a sleepy Chicago suburb, became a hot-spot for ICE immigration protests  NBC News Broadview mayor places new restrictions on demonstrators at ICE facility, Illinois House Speaker calls for fence to come down  WGN-TV …

Federal officers detain a person while members of the community and activists protest near the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue, Oct. 4, in Chicago. Armando L. Sanchez/Tribune News Service hide caption toggle caption Armando L. Sanchez/Tribune News Service There are countless videos on social media showing similar scenes. One, filmed by a photographer in Hyattsville, Md., shows a man …

ALBANY PARK — Federal agents deployed tear gas in Albany Park Sunday as residents chased off agents who were trying to detain a neighbor. Gabriel Paez and his wife, Megan Dougherty, were returning home from brunch Sunday afternoon when they saw two armed federal agents confronting a neighbor on the sidewalk. The couple, who live near Wilson and Sawyer avenues, …

Before this, Broadview, a village of 8,000 residents that stretches just over 2 miles, was all but incognito. Its quiet streets, where some neighbors say they don’t even lock their car doors, have drawn a diverse mix of middle- and working-class families, including Hispanic, Black and white people. Now, after the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Midway Blitz, an …

How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos  The New York Times ‘It’s Never Been This Bad’  The Atlantic “I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America  ProPublica ‘It was like a movie’ – How immigration raid on Chicago apartments unfolded  BBC US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians  The Guardian Source …

Even without the national guard, law enforcement agencies of the federal government have been using military hardware and tactics on civilian targets. At a low-rent apartment complex on Chicago’s south shore, people started hearing the boots hit the roof around one in the morning. The oh-dark-thirty immigration enforcement raid in the early hours of 1 October featured an air assault …

Nearly half of the FBI agents working in the US’s major field offices have been reassigned to aid immigration enforcement, according to newly released data, a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns. Personnel data obtained by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator, and shared with the Guardian, suggests the Trump administration has moved 45% of …

CHICAGO — The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights received more than 1,000 calls to its hotline Friday — the most in a single day since it was created — as reports of federal immigration enforcement surged across Chicago and beyond. Callers reported sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, sought legal and economic resources and asked for help …

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV, bringing him a packet of letters from immigrant families “terrorized” by fear that they and their loved ones will be rounded up and deported as the Trump administration’s tactics grow increasingly combative. El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz also showed Leo a video …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The friendly match was supposed to be played on Oct. 13 at Soldier Field in Chicago …