Posted on 11/16/2025 5:58:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO (AP) — Baltazar Enriquez starts most mornings with street patrols, leaving his home in Chicago’s Little Village on foot or by car to find immigration agents that have repeatedly targeted his largely Mexican neighborhood.
Wearing an orange whistle around his neck, the activist broadcasts his plans on Facebook.
“We don’t know if they’re going to come back. All we know is we’ve got to get ready,” he tells thousands of followers. “Give us any tips if you see any suspicious cars.”
Moments later, his phone buzzes.
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government. The Democratic stronghold’s response has tapped established activists and everyday residents from wealthy suburbs to working class neighborhoods.
They say their efforts — community patrols, rapid responders, school escorts, vendor buyouts, honking horns and blowing whistles — are a uniquely Chicago response that other cities President Donald Trump has targeted for federal intervention want to model.
“The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is a bunch of obscenities and ‘no,’” said Anna Zolkowski Sobor, whose North Side neighborhood saw agents throw tear gas and tackle an elderly man. “We are all Chicagoans who deserve to be here. Leave us alone.”
Sprague)
Baltazar Enriquez, president of the Little Village Community Council, walks with a Chicago Public School’s student walkout in protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents around Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Talia Sprague)
The sound of resistance
Perhaps the clearest indicator of Chicago’s growing resistance is the sound of whistles.
Enriquez is credited with being among the first to introduce the concept. For months Little Village residents have used them to broadcast...
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It’s nice to have these articles to balance the articles of community members in support of the aggressive enforcement of immigration laws.
AP roots for the other team.
Wow! I never thought I would want the U.S. to have prison camps.
It may be that we’ll have to end property and income taxation and prohibit government fiscal deficits.
The invaders can pay their and their kids way.
I understand but journalists are protected under the First Amendment.
Baltazar Enriquez must live off the taxpayer’s money if he can fart around looking for ICE agents all day.
Lazy parasite SOB.
Is he an illegal alien too?
No one has the right to ignore border and immigration laws and diminish the rights ig American citizens. If you are not here legally, you have the right to leave and go back to where you came from.
I guarantee that if there were communities in the US that were promoting the illegal entry of conservative white people from anywhere in the world, and protecting them from deportation, Baltazar Enriquez and those like him would be screaming for their deportation.
Every person who comes into this nation illegally, and particularly those who don’t want to assimilate but instead want to markedly alter the US, are personally attacking me and all legal patriotic American citizens - and their families. Those who protect them from deportation are also aggressively attacking American citizens.
How is it not interfering with a federal investigation?
Good question and the AP elevates him to star status.
What a pile of horse manure!
Sounds like a plan.
https://chicagoil.mugshots.zone/baltazar-enriquez-mugshot-02-21-2023/
Name
BALTAZAR ENRIQUEZ
Age
43
Arrested By
CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT
Charges
DRIVING ON REVOKED LICENSE
NO PARKING IN FIRE LANE
UNATTENDED VEHICLE/MOTOR RUNNING
POSS CANNABIS IN PRIV VEH NOT IN SEALED CONTAINER
LIGHT HEADLIGHTS SUNSET/SUNUP
URINATE OR DEFECATE ON PUBLIC WAY
Bonds
1500 NOBONDP
One thing Chicagoans have to admit is that crime is down since ICE has been there.
One can only believe that the population that is against ICE and the clean-up are also for the high crime they’ve been nade to live in....
"largely Mexican neighborhood"
ARROGANT ILLEGALS—THERE IS A LIMIT TO HOW LONG THEY CAN LAST.
Excellent Idea. Loud whistles blowing every few minutes on each block at random times.
So whistles have taken down ICE and Homeland Security by creating no go zones? This sounds like an insurrection of the unassimilated. Why are the regular Chicago police not arresting the blowers? Is there still Federal assisstance going to schools encouraging walkout mobs?
I did a search - and it’s not known if he’s even a citizen....
"What do you mean the raid was two blocks away? The whistles were blown here, not there."
/easily duped
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