Heartbreaking changes.
Posted on 10/21/2025 2:22:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO (AP) — The music begins low and ominous, with the video showing searchlights skimming along a Chicago apartment building and heavily armed immigration agents storming inside. Guns are drawn. Unmarked cars fill the streets. Agents rappel from a Black Hawk helicopter.
But quickly the soundtrack grows more stirring and the video — edited into a series of dramatic shots and released by the Department of Homeland Security days after the Sept. 30 raid — shows agents leading away shirtless men, their hands zip-tied behind their backs.
Authorities said they were targeting the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but only two of the 37 immigrants arrested were gang members. The others were in the country illegally, they said, including some with criminal histories. One U.S. citizen was arrested on an outstanding narcotics warrant.
But the apartments of dozens of other U.S. citizens were also targeted, residents said, and at least a half-dozen Americans were held for hours.
The immense show of force signaled a sharp escalation in the White House’s immigration crackdown and amplified tensions in a city already on edge.
“To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally,” Homeland Security said in a social media post accompanying the video, which racked up more than 6.4 million views. “We will find you.”
But Tony Wilson, a third-floor resident born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, sees only horror in what happened.
“It was like we were under attack,” Wilson said days after the raid, speaking through the hole where his door knob used to be. Agents had used a grinder to cut out the deadbolt, and he still couldn’t close the door properly, let alone lock it. So he had barricaded himself inside, blocking the door with furniture.
“I didn’t even hear them knock or...”
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Or, a migrant invader crackdown...
Sorry Tony Wilson....but had you done anything to anger those criminals they would have used the grinder on your head....and no one could interview you. Plus your mayor would make sure they would get away with it. You’re only slightly more safe with the illegally immigrated people out of your building. Cause they have friends.
Well that sucks. Moving on, how's the weather in ChiTown this time of year?
“Agents rappel from a Black Hawk helicopter.”
Hey, if I’d known about that, I might have joined Border Patrol back when I had the chance.
Just kidding. Not stepping off of or jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft in flight.
Our dad fought in WWII, Korea and Vietnam as a pilot.
Like most, he did not talk a lot about it. He did share that there are two kinds of people who jump out of airplanes; idiots, and people in the Armed Forces.
As long as he had wings, he rejected jumping.
Yes, yes, he had to learn and did jump out of airplanes. He just didn't like it.
How do you know?
“To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally.”
All illegal aliens are criminals.
"'It was like we were under attack.'" "'I didn’t even hear them knock or nothing,' said Wilson, a 58-year-old U.S. citizen on disability."
If Wilson is a U.S. citizen he should have been assisting the law enforcement in removing illegal invaders from U.S soil.
"It’s a place where teams of drug dealers troll for customers" "also takeout places where the catfish fillets are ordered through bullet-proof glass".
And this reality is not "dramatic" enough???
And these people don't want professional legal teams to make the place safe???
Another sad propaganda story from the AP Muppets and Sock Puppets.
Heartbreaking changes.
I wonder what AP thinks is an “appropriate” number of Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists per 37 people?
“ So he had barricaded himself inside, blocking the door with furniture.”
Sounds like Tony needed a few more criminals rounded up.
Everything changes except God. Many of the beautiful woods and fields of my youth are gone. Cheaply constructed modern houses now sit upon them. People I loved are dead. Stores and restaurants that I could spend all day, all evening in have closed. What I miss most are the freedoms.
And music stores.
Smart man.
I was looking at our old brick Chicago house online and it still looked as it did in childhood. The park across the street looked similar, too. Only the neighborhood has become so dangerous that my grammar school class visited the school with a police escort.
I still have all my old 78s and 33s in a carved leather case my father carved after he retired from the army. The rest of the hundreds of records have, unfortunately, been hidden behind a floor filled with Stuff. Thank goodness for streaming.
As for the people, keep them alive by telling stories about them and letting others share your memories. As long as they’re remembered, they still live on.
No such thing as a perfectly good aircraft.fixed or rotor.
Tom Homan said.
“If you do not collaborate, we will come after them and then, we will catch even the others, who are not targeted.”
> I wonder what AP thinks is an “appropriate” number of Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists per 37 people?<
The AP wants us to think that innocent people hang around murderous gang members and that US citizens have immunity from criminal warrants if an illegal is the target of a raid.
EC
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