Posted on 11/29/2025 11:46:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality
Earlier this year, the Trump administration reversed the convention that nobody would be snatched by immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE, by a school, church or hospital. Since then, teachers have reported classrooms a third empty, as parents are too scared to send their kids in – volunteers walk them there and back.
In the Rogers Park area of Chicago, a group of citizens are organising to resist such immigration raids. Sometimes, it’s simple non-violent tactics, such as slowing officers down by walking in front of them. Last month, 50 people rushed to a church, where the congregation was trapped, having got word that there were ICE agents waiting outside. Maybe their most evocative tactic is whistles – coded blasts for when a convoy is suspected to be ICE agents, a different code when it’s confirmed. They have numerous accounts of undocumented migrants warned off driving right into a raid, which is galvanising, but they also see and hear dismaying things all the time: vehicles standing empty, one door open, not robbed, merely relieved of their drivers; landscape gardeners arrested off ladders. Earlier this month, the Protect Rogers Park group got 1,500 calls in a day.
This isn’t unusual; people don’t like it when their neighbours are disappeared. Similar stories could be told about Kenmore Street, Glasgow, or Peckham, in London, where neighbours surrounded Home Office vans until they were forced to release their cargo and head home.
But I only know about Rogers Park from Criminal, a true-crime podcast. It’s been running for more than a decade, and covers crimes that range from the macabre to the peculiar – always introduced with the same disconcerting intonation, the host announcing “I’m Phoebe Judge” with...”
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Enforcing federal law is oppression? Yeah, okay.
Protect the criminals..
I voted for nabbing illegals at schools, churches etc.
THe Guardian promotes demograpioc warfare against the United States.
The silly baftards, the Brits are experiencing the same kind of demographic invasion from France as Brexit revenge,and are completely against the British People. What idjits.
It is to LAUGH !
The Guardian should be focusing on the issues in the UK with illegal immigration.
Those brits huh? Seems like a mere comment in the UK that those in charge don’t approve of can get you a dose of oppression. Fookin’ idjits!
It is shocking to see how open and casual media has become about rebellion against laws and law enforcement, now law enforcement is being treated as a hostile outside force to be plotted against and overcome.
More like fighting against expert advise in your best interest. Chicago is like someone who swears at his doctor when told that his diet of donuts and Mountain Dew is killing him.
The Guardian is resisting oppression in the UK??? Since when? The British gestapo/police arrest people for posts on social media, but this apparently is not oppression. People are arrested for telling the truth about Muslim rape gangs, but this is apparently not oppression. The entire staff of the Guardian can sod off
Almost as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside. She just needs a point hat and a broom.
The silly baftards, the Brits are experiencing the same kind of demographic invasion from France as Brexit revenge,and are completely against the British People.
What idjits.
A recent Victor Davis Hanson podcast pointed out that while the Islamic invasion of England is indeed happening, at present the Middle Eastern invaders are only 8-9 percent of the population.
The politically correct, woke insanity is consuming them, and the Islamofascistnazis are only too happy to take advantage.
HEY!
I gave up daily donuts many moons ago.
Still love a few glasses of Mountain Dew!
Arrest everyone of the people organizing this.
Prosecute under the RICO statutes.
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Of course, no mention of the hundreds of hard core criminals arrested.
“community” and “neighbors”
They are damn filthy scumbag criminal illegal alien democrats. Get them ALL the hell out, by any means necessary. Give them NOTHING except a one way ticket to their shithole country of origin or send them ALL to the UK. /spit
Right. Or how many were human trafficker Maryland Dads or misunderstood cowardly ambush killers.
The Dems have to protect criminals as part of their mission.
I’m sure the writers at the Guardian have no problem with law enforcement arresting people for online posts critical of the government in the UK. That’s real oppression
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