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Neighbors Warn Neighbors as Fear of ICE Ripples Across Chicago
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 6, 2025, 5:53 p.m. ET | Julie Bosman

Posted on 10/06/2025 3:47:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Parents are standing guard at schools. Restaurants have stopped delivering food or simply closed. “Every single person who looks brown is scared,” a lawyer said.

The signs in Spanish are taped to windows in storefronts all over Chicago: “ICE NO ES BIENVENIDO AQUÍ.”

Warning networks have been operating all day, every day, as people who spot agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the streets text friends and neighbors or begin streaming urgent cautions on Facebook Live. Even tourists have been drawn into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, startled by the sight of federal agents marching in camouflage last weekend through the upscale city’s Gold Coast, near the famed Magnificent Mile.

What began quietly in Chicago one month ago as a promise by the Trump administration to increase arrests of illegal immigrants is now being felt all over this city of 2.7 million people and in the broader metropolitan area encompassing millions more.

Tensions are flaring up like small, intense wildfires. At elementary schools on the West Side, parents have organized to stand guard at dismissal time. Some construction businesses are keeping their warehouse doors open to keep an eye out for ICE agents. Owners of small businesses are doing their own deliveries, to protect their Latino employees from driving through the city streets.

In Edgewater, on the Far North Side along Lake Michigan, a neighborhood listserv lit up with worries on Sunday over a helicopter circling the area. Could it be ICE, one person asked. Is there anything we can do, asked another.

Neighbors came out onto the streets of the Southwest Side on Saturday after a car crash involving federal agents and two motorists, who the Department of Homeland Security said were pursuing the agents recklessly. ICE agents responded with pepper balls and tear gas; the...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: brandonjohnson; chicago; dramaqueens; illinois; jbpritzker; ohnoanyway
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All part of John Podesta's 2020 blueprint to foment civil war. It was just postponed four years when they stole the 2020 election.

Next there will be a mass-casualty event where a gathering of illegal aliens or LGBQT pervert enthusiasts are sprayed with gunfire and the perp will be a now-deceased white supremacist wearing a MAGA hate and Nazi slogans on his AR15.

1 posted on 10/06/2025 3:47:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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I think it’s awesome that all those illegal aliens in Chicongo now have something to really worry about. ROTFL!!! Dance bozos Dance.


2 posted on 10/06/2025 3:50:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New DemonRAT Amerika! If you don't like your political opponent, kill them and their family.)
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“””I think it’s awesome that all those illegal aliens in Chicongo now have something to really worry about.””””

They lived there for years without any fear. Sucks to be them now.


3 posted on 10/06/2025 3:52:05 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So the invaders think that chicago belongs to them.


4 posted on 10/06/2025 3:53:50 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Erroneous title:

Should be: Illegals Warn Illegals as the sight of ICE improves across Chicago.


5 posted on 10/06/2025 3:54:53 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In three months there will be ice everywhere in Chicago.


6 posted on 10/06/2025 4:00:09 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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What a pantload.


7 posted on 10/06/2025 4:01:59 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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Good.

Neighbors should have been warning each other of the murderers in the South Side Gangs for years .... and ANTIFA terrorists more recently.

Grab more pearls to clutch, Old Grey Lady.

It's FAFO time.

8 posted on 10/06/2025 4:03:40 PM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: shelterguy

I love ICE. Bye bye illegals!


9 posted on 10/06/2025 4:04:04 PM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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“”””Even tourists have been drawn into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, startled by the sight of federal agents marching in camouflage last weekend””””


Since there are probably ZERO MAGA tourists in Chicago, NYT needs to revise the above statement to——

“””Even LEFTIST tourists have been drawn into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, startled by the sight of federal agents marching in camouflage last weekend”””””


10 posted on 10/06/2025 4:06:05 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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"Neighbors Warn Neighbors as Fear of ICE Ripples Across Chicago"

Chicago slumlords must be having a really bad time.
11 posted on 10/06/2025 4:08:10 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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Just proves it’s a foreign occupied city.


12 posted on 10/06/2025 4:16:25 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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What a ridiculous article l, did this rag EVER write stories about illegal alien gangs, crimes by illegals, murders, rapes, theft…. Or was it always about the “twinkle in their eyes”🤬


13 posted on 10/06/2025 4:27:56 PM PDT by blitz128
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2016?


14 posted on 10/06/2025 4:28:47 PM PDT by blitz128
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If you are a lawbreaker, you should be scared.


15 posted on 10/06/2025 4:29:11 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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I live in the Chicago area and see posts like this on Nextdoor. Interestingly, the first post is often something along the lines of “Good!” The majority of posts after that are usually pro-illegal, but it’s not an overwhelming majority. Lots of people around here are fed up.


16 posted on 10/06/2025 4:40:15 PM PDT by MissNomer
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The signs in Spanish are taped to windows in storefronts all over Chicago: “ICE NO ES BIENVENIDO AQUÍ.”

Kind of making a point there. Can’t they provide the statement in English?

17 posted on 10/06/2025 4:49:28 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: shelterguy

It’s no fun being an illegal alien


18 posted on 10/06/2025 4:49:51 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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One of five people arrested at the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility is Eman Adbelhadi, a professor at @UChicago.

She has been charged with two counts of felony aggravated battery of a government employee, and two misdemeanor counts of resisting/obstructing peace.

Image

19 posted on 10/06/2025 4:56:20 PM PDT by CFW
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Muzzie trash (redundant). Deport the anchor baby.


20 posted on 10/06/2025 5:11:49 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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