Chicago – The boundary agent who broke the criteria that lead the Immigration campaign in Los Angeles to Chicago arrived on Tuesday, which may indicate a new more aggressive stage Enforcement Last week, it was announced in the third largest city in the country.
“Well, Chicago, we have arrived!” Gregory Boveno He said in the X publication, which included a glowing video of customs vehicles and border protection that leads to the city alongside agents who walk in a slow movement amid great footage in the city center. “The process as a whole is here to continue the task we started in Los Angeles.”
The Minister of Internal Security, Christie Nom, was in Chicago, saying that the officers of the Ministry of Internal Security had been arrested early on Tuesday. Video clips of armed agents have been published in military camouflage equipment that leads people on handcuffs.
“Our work only started,” she said.
For several weeks, President Donald Trump promised – With the threats of horrific power Chicago will see an increase in the enforcement of immigration and the National Guard forces over objections Local leaders and Population. Illuminated immigrant activists and legislators have noticed to rise In immigration enforcement agents as Trump’s goals Democracy strongholds.
However, Trump has Swing To send a military deployment to Chicago. After he said he will focus On other citiesTrump said on Tuesday that Chicago would witness a publication soon.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a frequent democratic and Trump Obtained any federal intervention, The most recent statements of the Republican President about Chicago.
“It is difficult to believe anything he says,” Pritzker told reporters.
Officials have not answered questions about the concentration or size of the immigration application in Chicago. A military base spokesman outside Chicago did not agree to provide it Limited logistical support To federal agents.
“The teams have spread throughout Chicago to pursue goals,” Bovino told Associated Press.
He said that sleep noted a raid of 5:30 am led to five arrests.
It included one American citizen, Chicago news means. Joe Buttello, 37, said that he was briefly detained after informing the agents who came to his house in the gene early on Tuesday, and he was an American citizen and had his identity, according to the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.
Brandon Lee, a spokesman for the Illinois Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees, said the arrests were not about to keep society safe.
He said: “Putting the image of the external minister of the Elgin’s cruelty of ice on the whole, removing people by force from their homes and disrupting the daily life of citizens and non -citizens alike.”
Increased implementation in recent days Renewed fears Among the migrant societies in Chicago, which led to the cancellation and delay of some celebrations for the Day of Mexican Independence, which was on Tuesday. Tensions are especially high since the ice officer Firing A man was evading arrest last week.
Pritzker, In 2028, a presidential competitor criticized Boveno’s tactics, describing their violent and discriminatory. The administration was accused of sending federal agents to stir tensions and amplify them as Trump’s justification for deploying the army.
“They hold people with brown skin, speak a accent, or speak another language, not guilty people or accused of a crime,” said Pritzker on Tuesday.
In Los Angeles, the self -described “rotation and burns” process of Bovino led to thousands of arrests. The agents destroyed the car windows, blew up a door on a house and they carried out patrols Mac Arthur Park On horseback. The operation began in California on June 6 without any hints before it was launched.
On social media, BOVINO fill its content related to Chicago, noting a favorable media coverage, and he retracted the members of Pritzker employees and used a popular musician from “The End of the Beginning” from DJO as a background music for his arrival video. The line is often used “and when I return to Chicago, I feel it” on ODES social media to the city.
Mayor Brandon Johnson said he had no direct talks with federal officials and confirmed again that the Chicago police would not cooperate with immigration agents. As a large symbolic measure, he signed an executive thing aimed at protecting the right to protest.
“In the event that the federal government is trampling on the constitution, our police administration is responsible for ensuring that we are protecting our democracy,” he said.
Johnson and Bretzker pledged to prosecute a federal intervention.
Nom said that the Ministry of National Security will not decline.
Before Boufino’s arrival, the Ministry of National Security provided some details about the application of immigration in Chicago, as well as referring to nearly twenty detention since ICE began an operation earlier this month. Immigration activists said that the number is much higher, with more than 15 alone in a suburb on Monday. Officials with ICE did not repeat the messages on Tuesday.
On Monday, US MP Lauren Andrewwood, a democratic member of the Sub -Security Committee on credits, said on Monday that Ice acquired 250 people since it started “its operation in the middle of the road” on September 6. Andrewwood said she was informed of more information from ICE and that she was told that the program would include the entire state in Illinois, and Lake County, which is part of the Czech Republic.
“Everyone deserves to feel safe in their society. Like all Illinois, I was anxious and anxious about reporting the behavior of ICE and its operations in our state during Donald Trump,” Andrewwood said in a statement.
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The Associated Press Elliot Spagtus writer in San Diego contributed to this report.