Posted on 09/06/2025 3:59:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO (Reuters) -A normally raucous, colorful parade to mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago turned quiet and nervous on Saturday as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he intended to ramp up deportations in the nation's third-largest city.
In a break from traditional celebrations, twirling folklorico dancers decked in glimmering jewelry and billowing, multi-colored dresses distributed "know your rights" pamphlets to sparse crowds in the city's historically Mexican Pilsen neighborhood.
"This place would normally be packed," Eddie Chavez, a lifelong Pilsen resident, said while waving a Mexican flag in a lone row of lawn chairs along the parade route. "Now it's empty, like a ghost town."
Trump alluded to immigration raids in Chicago in a Truth Social post that echoed the movie Apocalypse Now.
"I love the smell of deportations in the morning," his post said.
Some Mexican festivals in the Chicago area were postponed or canceled amid fears of immigration raids.
"We're scared, but we're here," said Isabel Garcia, a dancer in Saturday's parade wearing a marigold-yellow dress and multi-colored ribbons and flowers in her hair.
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Awesome news!
:)
Cool!
Lo siento.
Well, America can produce only 22,000 jobs per month. Time for Joe Pedo’s illegal alien panhandlers to go home and get jobs there. They can grow their marijuana there and ship it up to Newscum on a Cartel speed boat. The blow up real good.
They weren’t quiet in Oregon.
They were throwing out mortars…..bunch of aholes spooked all of our critters.
Mugger to friend:
“Ain’t nobody in the ‘hood to mug no more. Everybody’s inside.”
“Yeah. It’s fascism.”
“We’re scared, but we’re here,” said Isabel Garcia, a dancer in Saturday’s parade wearing a marigold-yellow dress and multi-colored ribbons and flowers in her hair.
“Scared” of what?
Breakfast Tacos are getting harder to find.
“A normally raucous, colorful parade to mark Mexican Independence Day”
Go home. Numbskulls.
THEIR “RIGHTS” ARE SLIM & NONE
I voted for this.
Sounds great to me! Shouldn’t be celebrating the independence of another country anyway!
The best thing for the illegals in Chicago to do is DEPORT THEMSELVES..saves ICE the trouble of finding their asses
They claim they love Mexico SO much yet they refuse to leave and go back to Mexico
This tell you how many are illegal—almost all of them.
ICE is Coming Down the Street
(updated
Dancing in the Street)
ICE is coming down the street.🎶🎶
It’s just an invitation across the nation
A chance for folks to meet.
Oh it doesn’t matter what you wear🎶🎶
Just as long as you are there
They’ll give you zip ties
oh so neat.
There’ll be laughing, singing, music swinging
Arresting in the street.
Philadelphia, PA 🎶🎶
Baltimore and D.C.
now
Can’t forget the Motor City
They’re running in the street 🎶🎶
Way down in L.A.
Every day.
Hunh. Isn't that funny. It's historically Mexican--wull, how far back in "history" are we talking about here?
I mean, I notice it's not the "historically Mexican Santa Maria neighborhood," or even the "historically Mexican Cucaracha neighborhood."
"Pilsen" doesn't sound very Mexican to my ears. Kinda obviously German, wouldn't you say?
Not much Mexican history in Chicago. More like historically just got out of a stuffed semi-truck of other Mexicans, don't you think?
WINNING!
MORE ICE PLEASE!!!!
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