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Available reporting shows no single, definitive tally of how many U.S. citizens have been “detained or picked up by ICE” during the 2025 enforcement surge; different outlets and organizations track re...
Academic and policy research in the provided reporting shows immigrants in the U.S. — including undocumented immigrants in many studies — generally have lower incarceration, arrest, and offending rate...
Rob Reiner was a vocal critic of Donald Trump beginning in 2016, backing Hillary Clinton and repeatedly warning about what he saw as threats to democracy . By December 2025 his public comments remaine...
Contemporaneous primary-source material confirms that appears in the 1988 yearbook as a senior, and multiple repositories hold s and school-record channels that would be the logical places to obtain a...
Marimar Martinez was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after federal officials said she attempted to ram and then drive at agents during an October immigration operation in Chicago — an account that ...
Chicago’s violent crime has fallen substantially in 2025 by several measures: an Axios review cited by the City says overall violent crime dropped 22.1% through the first nine months of 2025, and the ...
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...
From 2020 through mid-2025, available reporting indicates , but direct numerical comparisons to the national average are limited by gaps and scope differences in the sources. Local officials credit ci...
Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB 1312 in December 2025, a package of laws that creates new protections for people without lawful immigration status by restricting federal civil immigration enforcement...
Allegations that ICE and other federal immigration agents used excessive force in Chicago are widely reported: multiple videos and eyewitness accounts show agents dragging a daycare worker and using c...
Rob Reiner was an outspoken critic of Donald Trump and “MAGA” figures, and multiple outlets cite interviews where Reiner called Trump and his movement dangerous — using terms like “fascism” or warning...
Public reporting consistently locates Nick Fuentes’ origins in the Chicago area: most sources say he was born in Illinois (often Chicago) and raised in suburban La Grange Park / Lyons Township near Ch...
Publicly documented officer counts for recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deployments are patchy: some episodes include explicit numbers—most prominently media reports of roughly 2,000 feder...
Nick Fuentes is widely described in reporting as a white nationalist and leader of the “America First” movement; several sources note he has Mexican-American ancestry on his father’s side, and comment...
Chicago counts shootings, domestic violence and sexual assaults through multiple public datasets and CPD CompStat reports that follow Illinois statutes and local reporting practices; the city publishe...
Media coverage consistently emphasizes Nick Fuentes’s public identification as a white nationalist and his antisemitic rhetoric, while some items note his mixed ancestry (Italian, Irish, and Mexican) ...
Major U.S. reporting and watchdog groups describe Nick Fuentes as a Holocaust denier and an antisemitic white nationalist; multiple outlets cite his mocking or questioning of the Holocaust and praise ...
ICE and local reporting show a recent surge of immigration enforcement in the Chicago area: ICE says its “Midway Blitz” and other actions led to thousands detained or hundreds arrested in different op...
Chicago saw substantial declines in shootings, homicides, and other violent crimes from 2020 through mid-2025 across multiple datasets, with some neighborhood-level interventions reporting very large ...