Chicago – As confrontations with federal immigration agents about Chicago He increasesThe tactics used by activists and migrant leaders to fight are also escalating.
Trump administration I have been devoted Chicago as a newer migration enforcement sign, using traffic stopping in heavy areas of migrants and ending the final workers outside the hardware stores.
“We will not back down,” the Minister of Internal Security, Christie sleep, published on Thursday to X, with a recycling dramatic shots Arrests in the suburbs of Chicago The house a few days ago.
Activists and Local leaders It is also challengeTry to deter agents, warning the population and keeping attention to a A man was killed by the immigration officer last week.
It also launched the United States for Immigration and Customs New process This month, it appears that the focus on stopping traffic in neighborhoods, suburbs, migratory and Latin suburbs is largely. This week, activists say Days of the daytime workers Also in height, echo What immigration agents did elsewhere.
Federal agents were monitored in nearly half of the dzzin from home warehouse stores and the city of the city and its suburbs, which led to individual arrests, according to activists.
“Our neighbors were building, drawing, repairing and beautifying this city, the target of these unjustified attacks,” said Miguel Alfello Rivera with the Latin Federation, which defends the day of the day.
On Thursday, he spoke near the home warehouse in the Latini neighborhood and the Breiton immigrant Park, where the ice agents were monitored one day ago. The Chicago region includes approximately 300 workers, according to the Latin Federation.
In immigrant and activated circuits, arrests are usually referred to as kidnappings because many agents wear masks, and they drive unique vehicles and they do not have badges on their clothes.
Gizelle Maldonado, 23, said that two of her uncles-Gabriel Soto River, 40, and Edrik Nicholas Jiminiz Barius, 37-were arrested on Monday on the western side of Chicago while they were leading to work as technicians in HVAC. Her uncles have since told other family members that they believed that they are withdrawn to stop the routine traffic.
Maldonado discovered that her uncles had been arrested when her mother sent her videos for the meeting on Tiktok. In videos, a client wearing a jacket can be seen with the phrase “Federal Police Agent” talking to someone in a car.
Maldonado said she immediately thought about two young children in Gabriel.
“Who will be for them?” She said. “They are children.”
Activists in Chicago, who was famous for the organization, became famous for the volunteers to the scenes of immigration agents. They record the video and collect other information to notify the family of the stables.
Activists generally circulate the ice vehicle licensing plates on social media and participate in sabotage demonstrations outside hotels where agents are believed to reside. Bicycle patrols are looking for agents, while some follow vehicles on foot and scream to warn those in the vicinity.
One neighborhood on the southwestern side of Chicago is a lot of noise, literally.
When the word increased enforcement in Chicago increased, Baltazar Enriquez began to buy orange emergency bile so that people can warn others of near ice agents. He said they are reliable even when technology fails.
He said about the neighbors: “If they hear this voice, they immediately start closing their doors, and locking their doors.” “This has succeeded for us here. People ask us,” Can I get a whistle? “” “
It is difficult to track the number of arrests in Chicago. The Ministry of Internal Security provided details of only a few dozen, while a conference member of Illinois, which ICE launched this week, said the number was 250.
However, doubts still included some information distributed by ICE the match outside the country. In at least one case, an American citizen was detained.
Before dawn on Tuesday morning, federal agents, Naim and Gregory BovenoThe Central Border Patrol of the Los Angeles operation, stormed a house in the El -Jinin suburb. They blew up the door while hovering the helicopters.
Elected officials criticized this step as a trick. DHS said five people were arrested. They were filmed on the handcuffs of the videos that were later posted on NOEM social media accounts.
Joe Butllo, who was born in Texas, told Chicago that he was among the men who kept on handcuffs until he showed identity. The Ministry of National Security confirmed that he was in detention, but he opposed the description as an arrest.
DHS said: “No American citizen has been arrested. They were briefly detained for the safety of the officers during the operation at home.”
Another man who was arrested in the same house was released without a bond on Thursday with his case continuing, with Judge Kerry Holp Hotatling, noting Carlos Augusto Gonzalez Leon. In court records, Federal officials said he was previously arrested and deported to Mexico at least three times between 2013 and 2022.
Description of his lawyer, Daniel J. Hessler, Gonzalez Leon as a hard worker provides his family in Mexico and his wife, who is in the care of the elderly.
The death of a Mexican man at the hands of ice agents raised questions from the President of Mexico and the Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.
The authorities say that immigration agents were following a man with a history of reckless leadership who entered the country illegally. They said Silverio Villegas Gonzalez escaped his arrest and pulled an officer in his car. The Ministry of National Security said that the officer opened fire because he feared his life.
Nayywan praised the officer whose name was not revealed as brave, referring to Gonzalez as “an illegal criminal foreigner” who resisted arrest.
Many doubt the Franklin Park suburb of the authorities’ claims, and they remember it in the standing of the protest as a nice family man.
Gonzalez, who worked as a chef, had decreased from one of his children in daytime sponsorship that morning.
“He took enough time to talk to teachers about anything that was happening in the classroom. It was easy to get. He was always respectful for employees,” said Mary Mayer, director of the Franklin Park Little World Learning Center.
The 38 -year -old was from Michocan state in western Mexico, according to the Mexico General Consulate in Chicago, who said it would “monitor” the investigation closely.