The South Shore raid

 

We will find out who we are.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

  Chicago Sun Times

He absolutely would be.

At one point, he went outside to check on things. He said ICE shouted at him to “shut my door, get the f--k inside, and don’t open my door again.”

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During the Sept. 30 raid, residents, migrants, including the woman’s husband, and squatters alike were zip-tied in the middle of the night. Other residents — like the man who helped his neighbors hide — were left undisturbed by ICE agents, prompting questions about what federal authorities knew about the building’s occupants ahead of time and how they obtained that information.

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Days before the raid, the man who sheltered the mother and her daughter saw someone he believed to be a worker from the building taking pictures of the units “where the Venezuelans lived.”

WBEZ and Sun-Times reporters also found a map crumpled up on the floor in the entryway of an apartment. It labeled each unit inside the five-floor building as “vacant,” “tenant” or as “firearms.” Some units appeared to be marked as both “tenant” and “firearm.”

The units marked “vacant” on the map had clearly been raided, with doors broken down and items scattered everywhere. Most units marked as “tenant” appeared intact, though not all.

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Larry, a resident of five years who didn’t share his last name due to safety concerns, said federal agents attempted to break down his door that night. Larry said he went back and forth with agents, as they banged on his door, telling them they didn’t have the right to enter. Eventually he said they left and placed an orange sticker on his door, labeled “no go.”

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The apartment where the mother and her 7-year-old daughter hid from ICE that night was marked “vacant.”

The mom and girl stayed with their neighbor for three days, he said. He doesn’t know where they are now.

“Hopefully she’s safe,” he said.

UPDATE 11/14/2025:  Simply evil.