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Reporting on the Chicago protests against ICE and “Operation Midway Blitz” does not identify any organized program that is paying “agitators” to protest, nor does it provide evidence of standard wages...
Available reporting shows the Sept. 30, 2025 raid at 7500 S. South Shore Drive resulted in 37 arrests by federal authorities and multiple credible accounts that U.S. citizens were temporarily detained...
Federal agents in multiple recent incidents have deployed pepper balls and other “less-lethal” munitions at ICE facilities and protests — with video showing strikes to the head and close-range shots t...
Federal law expressly allows some warrantless arrests by immigration agents—Section 1357 permits officers to arrest without a judicial warrant in limited circumstances such as when the offense is comm...
recorded in 2025 according to multiple city and local media tallies, a sharp year‑over‑year decline that city officials and analysts flagged as the lowest in decades . That count translates to roughly...
Multiple independent outlets reported that a 22-year-old mother, identified as Nayra Guzmán, was detained by ICE in October 2025 while her newborn remained in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); th...
A review of the supplied reporting finds no clear, documented instance in these sources of a FOIA lawsuit filed by journalists that specifically produced “use‑of‑force” files between 2015 and 2021; th...
Local reporting, court filings and multiple national outlets say federal immigration agents — Border Patrol/ICE — deployed tear gas in Chicago’s Old Irving Park on Oct. 25, 2025, disrupting a neighbor...
Court filings and multiple news reports say a federal agent allegedly pointed a gun at a protester in Chicago and said “bang, bang” and “you’re dead, liberal,” with the claim appearing first in an Oct...
Old Irving Park’s long-standing Halloween tradition became the scene of a contested federal immigration enforcement action in late October 2025 that residents say , while federal officials say the ope...