Posted on 12/13/2025 7:15:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The windowless newsroom of The Phoenix, the Loyola University Chicago newspaper, hums like an old refrigerator. A coffee pot burbles in the corner as juniors Julia Pentasuglio and Ella Daugherty lean over a glowing laptop, updating a Google map.
Each red pin marks a sighting of federal immigration agents near campus and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Nearby, editor-in-chief Lilli Malone scrolls through reports from Rogers Park, a neighborhood along Chicago's lakefront where 80 languages mix. There were new pins from seven sightings that day alone - reports of vans barreling down side streets, masked immigration officers drawing guns, students watching from on-campus dorm windows as neighbors were taken away.
The young student journalists normally cover dorm-room Thanksgiving recipes and local Christmas tree lightings, but find themselves with a new role under Donald Trump's presidency: documenting immigration raids. Their goal: counter online rumor with facts and give locals a map of frequently targeted areas as panic spread in recent months over who might be picked up by immigration agents next.
Loyola has long welcomed immigrants without legal status in the U.S., including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students who came to the U.S. as children, particularly in its medical school — a point of pride at a Jesuit university built on a mission of social justice.
“People were scared, and they needed someone to verify what was real,” Malone said.
The students are joining a broader wave of local mobilization against ICE across Chicago that has included cyclists trailing unmarked vans through alleys, parents forming checkpoints outside elementary schools and Pilates students shouting at agents pulling people into SUVs while neighbors film.
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This is why the majority of maggots with college attendance certificates are severely retarded. They only go to the prostitutions of really high on drugs learning to keep up with the current college retard fads.
They would need a heck of a lot more pins if they were tracking gang murders in Chicago...
Ideology trumps common sense.
The vox populi wants alien criminals, terrorists and cartel gangs deported while the democrats and their marxist supporters pick the defense of them as their hill to die upon.
That might actually contribute to “social justice”
Wouldn’t it be easier to just put pins in the map of the places illegals live and work?
Sounds like the college retards are big fans of ICE raids.
Pretty funny, when they can’t add, subtract, or calculate percentages of all the pins....
I guess ICE raids are only bad when a republican president is in office. Where were these idiots when Obeyme was deporting the illegal aliens?!
I guess ICE raids are only bad when a republican president is in office. Where were these idiots when Obeyme was deporting the illegal aliens?!
Indeed.
True.
The extremes of both sides on immigration have hills to die on, including some FReepers.
The fact is a large majority of Americans/US Citizens/Voters want criminals, murderers, rapists, drug runners deported.
A smaller majority (including me) want DUI drivers, drunk and disorderly deported.
A majority DO NOT WANT illegals deported who sit beside them in church, who work hard, who take care of their family, who are good people. The church I attend in Marietta GA will have about 3,000 in attendance this Sunday with about 1,500 of the 3,000 being Hispanic. Of the Hispanics about 1/3 are illegals, about 1/3 are anchor babies, about 1/3 are naturalized citizens, most of whom used to be illegals (like my wife). Over half of the legal Hispanics have illegals in their family, a brother, a cousin, an aunt, uncle or grandparent, etc.
Let’s first deport the truly bad persons who are not wanted here ... the Tom Homan ICE approach and not the Border Patrol Bovino approach. Let’s actually deport them, and not hold them in detention centers. It is a privilege, not a right, to be in the US. To deport an illegal is to remove that privilege and does not violate their “rights”. But the more they are held in detention center, the more they have the opportunity (whether valid or not) to claim their “rights” are being violated.
The MAGA/Trump coalition is a coalition. People with my perspective on deportation are a significant part of the coalition. Many in this coalition oppose BIG GOVERNMENT. We do not want big government.
If a significant part of the coalition is lost, the coalition loses.
They need a refresher course in what the word “illegal” means and US law concerning such.
It would be a shame if they received numerous false reports that contaminated their data.
The title made me think of movies showing RAF fighter command tracking incoming German bombers. Serious young women wearing headphones pushing symbols on a large map.
The Left couldn’t care less if an illegal alien is good or bad.
It’s all about votes and power.
The room sounds like a good place to raid by ICE for the got away protesters that did damages.
“marxist supporters pick the defense of them as their hill to die upon”
It seems some both sides are picking hills to die on, including some FReepers.
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