Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizen's house, handcuffed him,

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Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizen’s house, handcuffed him, and put him in a propaganda video even after realizing it was a mistake.

This is America under Trump. No one is safe.

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[Prairie Gates]

1. That's not Chicago

Haha. I had to look it up because that picture was def not Chicago. It's Elgin.

Listen, Elgin is a far west suburb. It's well past O'Hare, past Schaumburg, even past Hoffman Estates. That's pretty well west. I would consider Elgin the farthest west of the west suburbs. It's friggin halfway to Rockford.



There's a joke in Chicago that if anybody you meet on trip says they're from Chicago, they're probably not from the city (the joke is that they're from Naperville). Elgin is farther from Chicago than Naperville.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I've Said It

I've worked in 41 countries outside the US, and if I was asked where I was from, I'd say Chicago.
I lived in Chicago for under 6 months., before my parents moved us to Joliet.
Nobody on Italy, or Poland, or China knows where Joliet is, but they know where Chicago is.
And, I moved to a smaller town in the region. If they didn't know where Joliet is, they sure wouldn't know where our town is.
It's just a convenience to accommodate others' frame of reference.

[Prairie Gates]

3. That's fine

Chicagoans are still perfectly free (and correct) to goof on it, though.

[CincyDem]

12. Elgin vs. Chicago is actually and important point.

From the perspective of growing up in Chicago (really really in the city - as in voting for Daley...lol)...

Elgin is way out there with lower than the national average crime rates. It's probably on the edge of "Chicago/not-Chicago" argument but I'm sure there are people who live in Elgin that commute into the city for work.

To me, this is a great choice for Noem's BS staged participation where the WH can use the footage to bolster their "Chicago is a mess" mantra. Chances of them busting down a door in Elgin and finding 4 guys strapped to the nines sitting in the living room playing GTA VI are nil and zero. No chance of an errant shot clipping her.

But...head into Austin, Englewood, or a dozen other neighborhoods that are actually in the city and those odds go up. Not way up, but there are areas where the response to a no-knock warrant are more dangerous than it is in Elgin.

Geographically...yeah, it's Chicago to most of the country but culturally, safety-wise, "feel"...it's no more Chicago (as most American's know it) than Ohama, Kansas City, or Fargo.

Let's say it a different way: If you won a free weekend for two in Chicago and they took you to Elgin, you'd sue the promoters for false advertising...and probably win.

[Prairie Gates]

13. Yes, there's substance to it as well -- nicely said

They're screaming about crime but they make a stop in Elgin? It's pretty ludicrous.

[haele]

24. Safety is paramount with those types

Going after potentially real criminals might mean someone on their "team" gets hurt.
They go after the soft targets and easy arrests - like an elderly Nicaraguan immigrant who got a speeding ticket twenty years prior coming in for an appointment to replace a lost green card.

Public safety isn't a real concern to them. Nor is accuracy. ICE's new motto - If you're brown, you're going down.

[Harker]

15. I was born in "a Western suburb of Chicago." If any one cares enough to ask, "which one?", I'll be specific.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone other than newscasters and ad readers use "Chicagoland", though.

I'll try it some time. It always gets a funny reaction from my wife here in upstate New York when she hears it during Blackhawks games.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. I've Used "Chicagoland" On A Few Occasions

But, not very often.
I think I've mostly used it in online discussions. Don't think I've ever used it while speaking.

[xmas74]

37. I usually say I'm originally from the tri-state area

Technically Kenosha is the northernmost suburb of Chicago, even though it's closer to Milwaukee. Sometimes they'll joke about Kenosha being on the 50 yard line for sports fans, with a 50/50 split of Chicago fans and Wisconsin fans.

[Mark Baker]

22. Joliet

Surely everyone has heard of Joliet prison? I wouldn't have known exactly where it is but I knew it was near Chicago.

[Sequoia]

28. The Blues Brothers 💙

[ProfessorGAC]

34. In China?

Or Japan, Romania, India, Brazil, Thailand.......?
Not so sure about that.
In the US, you're probably right.

[Scrivener7]

5. In this context, does that really matter?

[Prairie Gates]

14. I mean, they're screaming about all the crime in the cities

It's odd to carry on about crime in Chicago and hold your first raids in Elgin. By odd, I mean it makes no sense.

[eppur_se_muova]

38. It makes MAGA sense. As long as SOMEBODY gets arrested. Who is a detail, as is guilt/innocence.

Actual due process is not on anyone's mind. They'd probably have to look it up to even know what it means.

[Rebl2]

25. This makes

Noem look like the FOOL she is. Saying they arrested someone who ended up being a US citizen, not in Chicago, but a city so far west of Chicago it’s barely a suburb of Chicago.

[LeftInTX]

32. My brother lived out that way.

It's not Chicago. It's part of the metro area.

[progressoid]

33. It's a quiet neighborhood. My Grandparents used to live there.

And, yeah, they never said they lived in Chicago. Because they DIDN'T!

Ice Barbie probably flew into Chicago and got into a town car that drove her to Elgin. She's clueless

You can fit the entire population of South Dakota into Chicago three times.

[GoCubsGo]

4. I hope he sues the shit out of her. nt

[allegorical oracle]

35. Yep. Have wondered whether the gubmint ends up replacing all the damage ICE

does to citizens' cars and homes. Doubt that "gov't law enforcement mistakenly damaged property" is covered by insurance policies.

[Arazi]

6. So in 11 days with an army of ICE goons they've only found 250 people?!

So they decide to grab a US citizen in his home who allegedly has a criminal record to make a propaganda video.

Do I have this right?

Massive waste of $$ although if they’re blowing through it this fast, this bullshit will have to stop sooner or later

[Lovie777]

9. Didn't ICE kill one?................

[Arazi]

30. Yup... a devastating event for us, something to celebrate for ICE 🤬

[CrispyQ]

26. Didn't Noem blow through her annual budget by June or July?

I thought I read a few months ago that she was close to spending it all.

[Arazi]

29. She just got a few billion in the Big Ugly Bill

Only hope is enough grifters grab that huge pile of cash fast and Dems reclaim the House in 2026 and cut her off

[Vinca]

7. Why isn't this front and center on every news cast??????????????????????

[rubbersole]

16. The news is too busy showing the burning EV being circled by a guy on a mini-bike with a flag .

[BoRaGard]

8. G.O.P. violently enters an innocent man's castle (home)

then parades the innocent man around as if they had just captured some gross evil doer,
as if he was Jefrey Epstein's Bestie, then says "whoops, sorry, not sorry."

That's some evil, un-American and unchristian republicon Storm Trooper shit.

[Lovie777]

10. He's somewhat lucky tho.............

shithole could have considered him a terrorist and bombed his house.

[Emile]

11. Acting like Nazi stormtroopers.

[dalton99a]

17. "I told them I was a U.S. citizen, that my ID was in my wallet."

Joe Botello, a U.S. citizen from Texas detained in the raid, told the Chicago Sun-Times: "I told them I was a U.S. citizen, that my ID was in my wallet."

https://www.newsweek.com/kristi-noem-ice-raid-illinois-2130995

[travelingthrulife]

19. But are Puppy Killer's hair and lips OK?!?

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

20. ICE, along with the FBI, are now Trump properties/reality tv programs, hosted by KKKristi Noempathy and Kooky Kash.

[Ping Tung]

21. Were there any K9 units involved? Any collateral damage through friendly fire?

[Beaverhausen]

23. Blowing the doors off of someone's house for a DUI?

Is this what we've come to?

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. In rifling through what's left of my possessions, I came across a way-overdue library book.

I was born here, my parents were born here, but my grandmother was from Canada.

I think that qualifies me, by ICEstapo standards, for 5-10 in ADX Florence.

[Initech]

27. They think this is like Call Of Duty. What the actual fuck.

If we ever get out of this, we need to make the Nuremberg trials look like a practice run.

[republianmushroom]

36. America's Gestapo at work.