Your fact-checks will appear here
Cultural magazine in Iowa
A family says an ICE/CBP vehicle sprayed a 1-year-old and her parents during a Nov. 2025 operation in the Chicago area after federal agents were conducting immigration enforcement; the Department of H...
Executive Summary The core claim is that federal immigration agents pepper‑sprayed a father, Rafael Veraza, and his 1‑year‑old daughter, Arianna, in a Sam’s Club parking lot in Cicero, Illinois, durin...
ICE carried out multiple large, militarized immigration operations in Chicago this fall as part of “Operation Midway Blitz,” detaining dozens in high‑profile raids such as a South Shore apartment swee...
A Chicago-area family says a Border Patrol/ICE vehicle released pepper spray into their car in a Sam’s Club parking lot on Nov. 9–10, 2025, striking Rafael Veraza, his 1-year-old daughter and other fa...
Available reporting describes a viral video and family allegations that Border Patrol/ICE agents pepper-sprayed a 1‑year‑old and her parents in a Cicero/Sam’s Club parking lot during wider enforcement...
Court filings and media reports allege that a federal agent pointed a gun at a combat veteran during an operation in Chicago’s Little Village and said words reported as Multiple outlets and a court co...
Federal reporting and court records show multiple external lawsuits, judicial rulings and public scrutiny tied to operations led by , but public, detailed accounts of formal internal or CBP disciplina...
Local community groups and Chicago-area nonprofits have provided direct financial relief and fundraising support tied to anti‑ICE actions and affected families, while evidence that large national NGOs...
The provided reporting does not document a 2018 immigration-enforcement incident involving pepper‑spraying a one‑year‑old; instead, multiple news outlets describe an allegation from November 2025 that...
Multiple U.S. news outlets reported that a family — including a one‑year‑old — was pepper‑sprayed during an ICE/Border Patrol enforcement operation near a Sam’s Club in Cicero, Illinois; the family an...
Advocacy groups and community leaders mobilized quickly after video circulated showing a Chicago-area family saying federal agents pepper-sprayed a 1‑year‑old in a Sam’s Club parking lot; local activi...
Federal immigration agents carried out high-profile, coordinated enforcement operations across Chicago in 2025, including a large, militarized night raid on a South Shore apartment building and multip...
Chicago’s limits on local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are set by citywide policies — notably the Welcoming City Ordinance and a recent “ICE Free Zone” executive ord...
The analyses consistently identify the Chicago operation as and place its start in early September 2025, but they disagree on the exact start date and on specific raid dates inside the overall operati...
Multiple 2025 lists and local reports identify , and other South and West Side neighborhoods as the highest-concentration violence hotspots in Chicago. Recent intervention funding and community progra...
The available reporting shows for people detained in the Chicago ICE building raid: some detainees were arrested outside Illinois, at least two U.S. citizens were alleged to have been detained, and ad...
ICE targeting in recent Chicago raids is portrayed in reports as a mix of while civil-rights groups allege unlawful arrests and lack of warrants during Operation Midway Blitz. Coverage across dates in...
Multiple news and study excerpts in 2025 credit U.S. cities with measurable drops in violent crime tied to a mix of community-based violence-intervention programs, targeted enforcement, and social inv...
Chicago’s most common reported crimes in the recent coverage are , though different outlets emphasize different trends: some highlight sustained high counts of homicides in raw numbers while local rep...