Heating up Chicago

 

Instills fear.  Incites violence.

[N]eighbors were awoken just before 6 a.m. Tuesday as helicopters buzzed overhead and federal agents entered a home in the 900 block of Chippewa Drive.

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Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem posted a video on her social media feeds of the raid Tuesday morning, with three men, all of whom were allegedly undocumented immigrants, taken into custody from the rental property in the neighborhood.

Ismael Cordova-Clough, an advocate for Casa DuPage, responded to the scene of the enforcement action.

“I see the door broken, and I hear them screaming in Spanish, telling them to ‘get out, otherwise they will come in with deadly force,’ things like that,” Cordova-Clough said. “Then I see them come out, one by one.”

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[W]hile Noem’s post said that her department was “taking violent offenders off the streets” on various charges, federal officials have not detailed what the three men at the center of the raid were accused of.

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[Illinois State Sen. Cristina Castro] expressed anger that Noem’s presence for the raid, saying that Homeland Security officials are sowing fear within communities without just cause.

“She can go to hell,” she said. “Don’t come to my community. Go to hell.”

  NBC

They're already here.

“President Trump has been clear: if politicians will not put the safety of their citizens first, this administration will,” [Noem] said. “I was on the ground in Chicago today to make clear we are not backing down.”

Cosplaying, as usual.

The posts come a week after DHS announced another immigration enforcement campaign, "Operation Midway Blitz," was set to launch in Chicago. According to authorities, an ICE facility in suburban Broadview and the Great Lakes Naval Base in North Chicago were both set to help house processing and staging for the increased efforts, which could last as long as 60 days.

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“Our law enforcement are excellent at the work that they do right? Which is fighting crime. That is their job, to fight crime and when they see skirmishes going on, they don't know if those are real ICE officials, especially if they're wearing masks and in unmarked cars and aren't carrying or showing their identification,” [Gov JB Pritzker] said. “So this is a real problem, I think, for the city of Chicago, for the state of Illinois and it is the fault of the Trump administration and of ICE that they are unwilling to simply communicate with us about what they're up to.”

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Speaking on the White House lawn Tuesday morning, Trump said he plans to send troops to Chicago after Memphis, calling the Illinois city a "death trap."

"So I'm going to go to Chicago early, against Pritzker. Pritzker is nothing," Trump said. "If Pritzker was smart, he'd say please come in."

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"Sometimes he attacks sending his agents in, sometimes he forgets. I think he might be suffering from some dementia, you know? And the next day he'll wake up on the other side of the bed and stop talking about Chicago,” [Pritzker] said. “So I've never really counted on anything that he said as real. When he said that he wasn't coming to Chicago, I didn't trust that. When he says he is coming to Chicago, it's hard to believe anything he says."

UPDATE 09/18/2025:

Tased in the face.

The two brothers are U.S. citizens.

Edgar said that when the agent originally came to the passenger door, he tried holding the door closed, preventing him from opening it. He said at that time he and his family had no idea who was at the vehicle, and everyone was scared.

When the agent tried opening the door, Edgar said he was tased in the face. That's when he told everyone in the truck to run for their lives. Despite being a U.S. citizen, he said they ran out of fear.

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This is not about safety. This is an engineered crisis.

  CBS

With a "code name": Operation Midway Blitz.

UPDATE 09/19/2025:  ICE goons attack protesters, including Kat Abu.