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Jilly_in_VA

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Sat Nov 1, 2025, 12:59 PM Saturday

On Halloween, 'state-sponsored terror' in Chicago and the north suburbs

In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls to disperse an angry crowd and arrested two U.S. citizens. In Evanston, one repeatedly pointed his weapon at protesters while another knelt on a man’s back and punched him in the head.

They grabbed workers at an apartment complex in Hoffman Estates, landscapers, house painters and laborers in Edison Park, Skokie and Niles.

Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, teams of Border Patrol agents — including one led by Cmdr. Greg Bovino — tore through Chicago’s Northwest Side and nearby suburbs Friday, sparking violent clashes with community members throughout the day.

In a statement provided late Friday, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman said five Mexican citizens were detained in the raids. None of them had violent criminal histories, according to the information released by DHS.
Three U.S. citizens were also arrested for “violence against law enforcement,” the statement said.

One of the first reported encounters took place around 9:30 a.m. in Albany Park. There, witnesses spotted three vehicles carrying federal agents along West Lawrence Avenue near North Kedzie Avenue.

A crowd quickly gathered on the street, drawn by the sound of car horns and whistles — what’s now become a familiar soundtrack of public resistance in the Chicago area to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Midway Blitz.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/chicag-halloween-immigration-raids-evanston/

If Chicago is a "war zone", it's because ICE is making it one, not because it was one. And I don't see them going into gang neighborhoods...they're scared of those.

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