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ICE terrorizes another Chicago neighborhood

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Chicago, IL— In response to reporting that ICE carried out another Republican attack on Chicago–this time on the north side, the Democratic Party of Illinois released the following statement:

“Illinois Democrats understand that what affects one group, affects all of us. Until recently, we’ve seen ICE kidnap family members in predominantly Latino, Black and working class Chicago neighborhoods. Today is proof that no city street is safe from Republican extremism. Across Illinois, Democrats will continue to educate communities on their rights, stand by the rule of law, and fight to protect our neighbors.” 

Key excerpts from Block Club Chicago: Lakeview Street Tear-Gassed By Agents Amid North Side Immigration Surge: ‘It Hit Home’

By Patrick Filbin, Charles Thrush and Colin Boyle

  • Masked federal agents were seen detaining people across Lakeview and Lincoln Park on Friday — and they tear-gassed a residential street after neighbors confronted them for taking a man from private property.

  • About noon Friday, federal agents jumped over a fence to get into the yard of a home and detained one of three men who had been doing construction work on the building, witnesses said.

  • The agents struggled to open the building’s locked gate from the inside and instead attempted to wrangle the detained worker over its spiked fence, said Shannon Sudberry, a neighbor who rushed over when she heard a whistle from outside.

  • “They handcuffed him and were gonna throw him over the gate,” Sudberry said. “But Marissa said, ‘No, no, I’ll open the gate.’”

  • “They pushed him into the corner of a doorway, and they were beating him,” Safter said. “His face was bleeding. It was really disturbing. We were screaming at them to stop, to show their faces, to say their names. They just kept recording us and flashing badges.”