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This is not a good look for ICE

 More clerics in protests, please.

Completely obscene

These are evil people.

 

Nazis

 

UPDATE 06:36 pm:

It's illegal to switch license plates, too, but they also do that.

What law? What constitution? What rights?

Good luck. Cruella deNoem doesn't give a shit.   In fact, she apparently agrees with Trump that they should be more brutal. 

They're in trouble for this one.  That's why they're now arresting people who are filming.

(Little mamma fought like a tiger.)

Horrified bystanders filmed as a vehicle driven by immigration police crashed into a car before agents dragged a woman out by her legs and arrested her.

The US citizen, later identified as Dayanne Figueroa, had guns pointed at her by the agents. She says she was moved between multiple undisclosed locations and was not allowed to contact her family or a lawyer.

She was later released without charges. This is the latest violent ICE arrest to shock the US. Reports from the scene suggest that the ICE agents had been trying to escape protestors when the crash happened.

Ms Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before work when she came across an immigration raid in Chicago's West Town neighborhood. People were yelling and honking their horns to alert people of the raid as enforcement agents tried to detain several landscaper workers.

  MSN

ICE corruption

 

Yes, we're the baddies now

 Never to be heard from again.

They're doing their level best to start riots in Chicago.

UPDATE 11/14/2025:  Simply evil.

Resisting

On the 28th day of the government shutdown, a federal judge extended her order blocking the Trump administration from using the occasion to fire thousands of workers.

The leader of Democracy Forward, one of the advocacy groups behind the lawsuit, celebrated the ruling.

“This order is positive for the American people and a major blow to the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful attempt to make the Project 2025 playbook a reality by targeting our nation’s career public servants, who work for all Americans,” the group’s CEO and president Skye Perryman wrote in a statement.

[...]

Before she issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston commented on “the human cost” of the Trump administration’s “politically motivated” decision to lay off thousands of people during the government shutdown.

On Tuesday, Illston began a roughly 90-minute hearing by reading the stories of some of the workers affected, including a sworn declaration from Air Force veteran Sonya Crocker.

“Prior to my current job, I worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and before that I was in the United States Air Force,” Crocker wrote. “During all that time, including during my combat deployment, I have never gone through anything as traumatizing as what I am now experiencing.”

[...]

[Justice Department senior attorney Michael Velchik] argued that the public voted for Trump’s mass layoffs.

“I mean the American people selected someone known above all else for his eloquence in communicating to employees that, ‘You’re fired’ — like, this is what they voted for,” said Velchik, quoting Trump’s tagline on “The Apprentice.”

  All Rise News

These people are barely human, if at all.

“Eloquence of doing so?” Illston repeated, incredulously.

“Yes, he’s known for, above all, I think that is sort of what he was known for,” Velchik insisted.

Attorney Danielle Leonard, representing a coalition of unions led by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), carried out Velchik’s argument to its logical endpoint.

“What counsel is arguing is that if Congress lets government funding lapse for one day, the president can fire the entire federal government,” Leonard noted. “That is absurd.”

UPDATE 05:19 pm:

 I'm pretty sure there won't be a lot of body cam video, nor will there be many - if any - use of force reports.  

Bovino personally tossed a gas canister into a crowd. But the fact that he has to personally go to her with the report speaks volumes about how serious she is.  Of course, he's a Trump goon.  We'll have to see if he complies.

They're doing their level best to start riots in Chicago.

UPDATE 06:29 pm:

Jackass.  Or cow.  Is Bovino Italian for cow?

UPDATE 10/29/2025:

You knew that was coming.

Trump''s goons in North suburbs

 

The criminal MS-13 gangs that do construction, landscaping, and roofing in your neighborhoods are being rounded up!

You'll be surprised: Trump's goons lied

Senator Chris Murphy sent [a letter] Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about a horrifying incident that unfolded during Trump’s occupation of Chicago. A federal agent shot a woman multiple times after she allegedly menaced the agents with her car. Marimar Martinez, who didn’t have life-threatening injuries, is a U.S. citizen.

[...]

In particular, just after the shooting, DHS put out a statement claiming that the agents in question had been “boxed in by 10 cars” and that Martinez’s vehicle “rammed” theirs. The statement also suggests she threatened the agents with a “semi-automatic weapon.” All this “forced” an agent to shoot Martinez, who then “drove herself to the hospital.” DHS added that she’d previously doxed agents online. In short, the shooting was wholly justified: The victim was the one doing the terrorizing—of law enforcement.

Yet these claims are undermined by the criminal complaint against Martinez. It only mentions two cars menacing the agents, not 10. It doesn’t mention her gun, let alone her threatening of the agents with one. It says she was taken to the hospital by ambulance. And as the Chicago Sun-Times reports, Martinez’s lawyer says body-cam footage even contradicts the claim that she directly threatened the officers with her vehicle and shows that the agent said, “Do something, bitch,” before opening fire.

[...]

Now, to be clear, it’s possible that Martinez did commit serious crimes. She has been indicted for attempted murder, though the judge has released her and another man involved from custody for now. It’s possible she will be convicted. A jury should decide the matter.

But none of that justifies the level of official deception we’ve seen around this incident.

[...]

[T]he public is unaware of just how atrophied the mechanisms of accountability have become for DHS agents, at a time when the war they’re waging in U.S. cities—sometimes against Americans—is boiling over daily.

[...]

The people are awash in propaganda and lies about what their own government is doing to them, with Congress utterly checked out of the fact-finding business and increasing signs that the free press is retreating in the face of the authoritarian onslaught.

  New Republic

Those last two paragaphs are nothing new. Not in my lifetime, and I'd be willing to bet never in American history. It's just getting worse.

UPDATE 11/14/2025:  Simply evil.

The situation in Chicago

Cook County barred the use of county-owned buildings, parking lots, garages and vacant lots for civil immigration enforcement activities, implementing similar measures enacted in Chicago and most recently neighboring Lake County.

[...]

Last week, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones” at Chicago city property and “unwilling” private businesses. Since, others have moved to follow suit.

The Evanston City Council on Monday unanimously agreed to a resolution that prohibits the use of city property for federal immigration enforcement operations. A day later, the Lake County Board passed a similar resolution.

  Chicago Tribune

That's interesting.  I was driving all around Lake County yesterday morning.  I didn't see any disturbances, but I was not in Round Lake. I was in Fox Lake, however, and there's a report they were there at a townhome construction site. I was unaware of any issues at the time.  No doubt they think smaller communities just outside Chicago are less likely to obstruct their hellish mission.

Again, this is not DHS.  This is the Illinois State Police.  They're under the office of the governor.  I haven't yet gotten a response from that office (they're busy!) to my request for an explanation of why these officers are doing goon work.  

State police said in a statement released Friday morning that officials had issued “repeated instructions” for demonstrators to move and said that blocking the street created traffic safety issues and made it more difficult for lawyers and other third parties to get into the processing center building.

  Chicago Tribune

Nice excuse. But that's still no reason to whack 'em and drag 'em.

Among those arrested was a campaign staffer for Kat Abughazaleh, who is running in the Democratic primary for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District.

[...]

Abughazaleh, a progressive content creator who has been attending the protests for several weeks and has at times been joined by some of her primary opponents, said on social media that she “got hit in the face with a baton” at the Friday protest.

She got fully lifted off her feet and thrown to the ground twice in an earlier protest when ICE goons were in charge. Apparently, the state and the small town of Broadview decided the goons, who were shooting people with pepper balls and spraying chemicals, were going to create an uncontrollable situation and brought in the Illinois State police. They put up barriers and moved people to a distance from the detention center itself, which goons are still "protecting". Somebody forgot to tell the State police batons (they're actually huge bats) are not an acceptable substitution for pepper balls.

Protesters began to chant around 8 a.m. Friday, in violation of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson’s recently issued order that protests only occur between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

[...]

[P]rotesters around 8:05 a.m. pushed toward the ICE building, overpowering a handful of state police and Broadview officers. About five minutes later, dozens of state police in helmets with batons walked toward the crowd and began pushing them back.

Troopers tackled and dragged several people, including a woman with an accordion.

[...]

Thompson has been highly critical of federal agents’ actions outside the processing center, declaring that “this is not Putin’s Russia” and demanding federal authorities cooperate with a set of criminal investigations.

[...]

In a text message statement on the morning’s events, Thompson said “the most effective protests are those that inspire our better angels, not incite our worst demons” and said that “hostile behavior” would hurt the interests of immigrants who protesters were looking to support.

Tell that to the police.

Broadview police Chief Thomas Mills and Deputy Chief Brandy Johnson could be seen among county and state police following the pushback as chants of “Say it loud and say it clear, immigrants are welcome here” echoed down the street over a makeshift drumbeat.

Violent!

The Illinois State Police (highway patrol), FFS.

Calling the recent court ban on National Guard deployment in Illinois part of a “disturbing and recurring pattern,” the Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the president to dispatch troops in the Chicago area pending appeal, escalating the president’s conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil.

The temporary restraining order entered last week by U.S. District Judge April Perry “improperly impinges on the President’s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property,” the solicitor general said in its petition asking the high court to stay Perry’s order while the case plays out in the courts.

[...]

The Supreme Court asked lawyers for Illinois to respond by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Monday.

In response to the administration’s appeal, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote in a social media post Friday that the president “will keep trying to invade Illinois with troops — and we will keep defending the sovereignty of our state.”

  Chicago Tribune

 UPDATE 10/19/2025:

Speaking of ICE in Chicago...

 

Sure judge, whatever you say

Body cams.  Sure.  Do they have to be turned on?

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This one should be easy, too.  Wait outside on the sidewalk.

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The USPS Inspection agents have a sterling record and are considered the best of the best.  Now you see why.

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Real Christians

 

This is not ICE

 This is Illinois State Troopers at the Broadview Detention Center.

Is there anything Pritzker can do about this?  He's in charge of the National Guard, but not the state cops.