A storm came to an apartment complex by helicopter while sleeping from families. To deploy chemical agents near a public school. In handcuffs Chicago City Council member in a hospital.
Activists, residents and leaders say the rapid combative strategy used by federal immigration agents is increasing violence and neighborhood tension in the country’s third largest city.
“They are the ones who are making it a war zone,” Illinois Governor JB Pritzkar Said on CNN on Sunday. “They set tear gas and smoking grenades on fire, and they make it like a war zone.”
More than 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crack in Chicago region last month. The Trump administration has also vowed to deploy National Guard soldiers on its agenda to promote exile.
But immigrants with American citizens, legal status and children are rapidly detained in brazen and aggressive encounters that pop up daily in 2.7 million cities and its suburb areas.
Arrival by helicopter
Activist and residents were going to an apartment building in Chicago on Sunday South side Where the Homeland Security Department said that 37 migrants were recently arrested in an operation, in which the call was picked up by Pritjkar for investigation.
While federal agents have mostly focused on immigrant-thunder and Latin Enclave, the operation on Tuesday came out in a large-scale black south noise neighborhood, seeking asylum in Chicago seeking a small influx of migrants in Chicago.
The agents used unwanted trucks and a helicopter to encircle the five -storey apartment building, which according to the video and news should be invited to inspect the operation. The outlet “raped agents with” black hawk helicopters. “
The agents then went to the door, awakened the residents and used zip relations to stop them, including parents and children, including residents and children, including parents and children, which canceled the area.
Rodrick Johnson was in custody of American citizens and said the agents broke through their doors and kept them in zip relations. The 67 -year -old was released hours later.
“I asked if he had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” he told Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one one.”
Dixon Romero, together with Southside, an organization that is also helping the residents, said the doors were knocked out of the hinges.
He said, “Whatever we talked about, he did not feel safe.” “This is not normal. It’s not right. It is not correct.”
Two-Term Democrats, Pritzkar, directed the state agencies to claim that the children were zipped and detained separately from their parents, saying that the “military-style strategy” should not be used on children.
DHS officials said they were targeting the connection of the train de Argua gang. “Some of the targeted subjects are considered to be drug trafficking and distribution, arms offenses and immigration violations,” said DHS, without offering details about arrest or how children were treated.
Agency officials did not return a message left on Sunday.
Four American citizens were also briefly detained,
Brandon LeeWith the Illinois alliance for immigrants and refugee rights, said that some residents were placed on an ankle monitor, being unaware of others.
He said in a statement, “It is plain and clear that ICE (immigration and customs enforcement) and CBP (customs and boundary patrol) are violent forces in our communities.”
More tear gas and smoke bombs
Meanwhile, the use of chemical agents has become more frequent and visible in the last week. Initially used to manage protesters, agents used it this week on city streets and during immigration operations, according to ICirR.
An emergency hotline is at the top of 800 calls on Friday to report a philosophy of the immigrant agent, on the same day the activists said the agents threw a canister of a chemical near a school in the Logan Square neighborhood of the city. Activity at Northwest Side Neberhood inspired the nearby Fundon Elementary School to keep a holiday inside the house.
On the same day, Chicago Elderperson Jesse Fuints was kept in handcuffs in a hospital. He said that he asked the agents to show the warrant for a person who broke his leg chasing by ice agents, which was then taken to the emergency room.
“Ice acted like an attacking army in our neighborhood,” said State Rape Lilian Jimnez, a Democrat. “Helicopters hover over our homes, frighten families and disturb the peace of our community. These shameful and legitimate action is not only a violation of constitutional rights, but also a violation of our most basic freedom: the right to be free from harassment and fear.”
On Saturday, immigration agents shot a woman, alleging that the agents were tried to run them after “boxing by 10 cars”. He later said that the woman was armed. However, the activists said the immigration agents caused a multi-marriage accident and detained the woman, who is an American citizen.
Homeland’s Security Secretary Christie Nom Department has defended the aggressive strategy, accusing the agents of the agents and accused of dangers for the lives of the authorities.
“This is a very dangerous situation,” he said on Sunday at the “Fox and Friends” weekend show.
Going to court
Leaders of a Chicago suburb are home to an immigration processing center, taking their fight against federal agents to court.
The broadview has become an forward line in the village immigration operation. There is a center in a community of 8,000 people where immigrants are processed for detention or exile.
Protests out with daily arrests have become tense. Civil rights organizations have destroyed aggressive strategy by agents, while village officials have launched three separate criminal investigations against federal agents.
City officials have demanded the federal government to remove an 8-foot fence that they say that “illegally” was kept out of convenience. He filed a federal case on Friday, seeking a temporary preventive order and immediate removal of the fence says that they prevent the reach of the fire.
“The fence also forms an immediate public safety threat,” the trial said.
Also pending 2022 consent is an expected decision on the alleged violation of the decree of how federal immigration agents can arrest in six states including Illinois. While the order ended in May, the lawyers sought an extension and filed dozens of alleged violations in the last month.
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Associated press writer Ali Swinson contributed to this story of New York.