Organizers with the People’s Patrol talk to immigrant kids in Hanover Park, a suburb of Chicago, on October 10, 2025. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR hide caption toggle caption Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR HANOVER PARK, Ill. — Nearly a dozen kids come around the block, some running and others riding their bikes. They are heading straight to the gap between the grocery store and the …
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It was the second time Border Patrol agents have used tear gas to disperse crowds after a federal judge issued an order last week that sought to rein in how the feds used chemicals on crowds. After a group of protesters and journalists sued the federal government, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis last week issued a temporary restraining order that …
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This is part of our series of daily recaps of ICE activity in the Chicago region. Have a tip we should check out? Email newsroom@blockclubchi.org. LINCOLN SQUARE — Federal agents detained a woman who works for the news agency WGN on Friday morning as she attempted to document them detaining a Latino man, witnesses said. It is unclear if the woman …
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Marc Benioff has long been San Francisco’s liberal-leaning billionaire, the tech executive who funded homeless services, donated to the city’s public schools, and hosted Hillary Clinton fundraisers. But in a new, wide-ranging phone interview with the New York Times from his private plane, Benioff revealed a political transformation that seemed to surprise even his own communications team, despite that Salesforce …
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Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b—-,” before pulling over and shooting the woman five times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court Monday. The video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, …
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Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b—-,” before pulling over and shooting the woman five times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court Monday. The video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, …
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Federal prosecutors have filed felony assault charges against a woman who was shot Saturday by U.S. Border Patrol on the Southwest Side, in what led to a heated confrontation between federal agents and around 100 protesters. A Department of Homeland Security statement says the woman rammed her vehicle into the vehicle of federal agents, then took “defensive fire” from the …
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