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Anyone notice that ICE doesn't go into so called "Gang controlled" areas in Chicago. (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 2025 OP
Oh yeah that's pretty likely because they are afraid Eliot Rosewater Oct 2025 #1
Same in LA. They pretty much hung around and did very little, which I think is a good thing once they are there. Silent Type Oct 2025 #2
Gangs enid602 Oct 2025 #17
🐔💩s SheltieLover Oct 2025 #3
ICE gestapo are yellow bellied cowards. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #4
They all developed agonizing bone spurs like their boss. Ping Tung Oct 2025 #5
Perhaps they are boner spurned,also? BattleRow Oct 2025 #11
Fear that they'd probably get their ICEs handed to them? nt Buns_of_Fire Oct 2025 #6
Good one! flashman13 Oct 2025 #14
There would be a lot of crushed ICE there Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 #7
This is a partisan stunt LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2025 #8
Same Reason They Didn't Go Into Ward 8 in DC Deep State Witch Oct 2025 #9
Was the same in DC too Wiz Imp Oct 2025 #10
Where I grew up they would call this going after "low hanging fruit". twodogsbarking Oct 2025 #12
I wonder where these thugs are recruited from Generic Other Oct 2025 #13
Just spitballing here, but could it be that Bluetus Oct 2025 #15
SFO but not Oakland or Richmond Nululu Oct 2025 #16

Eliot Rosewater

(34,286 posts)
1. Oh yeah that's pretty likely because they are afraid
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 02:52 PM
Oct 2025

To go in there and since the reason they are in Chicago in the first place has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with violence or crime or uprising etc. and is only a political tool to suppress opposition and eventually arrest all opposition and eventually put military in everywhere Democrats vote, for all those reasons yes there is no intention to actually do anything necessary or important for the population.

Media will never say this and the Republican Party loves every minute of it.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
2. Same in LA. They pretty much hung around and did very little, which I think is a good thing once they are there.
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 02:57 PM
Oct 2025

enid602

(9,724 posts)
17. Gangs
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 06:04 PM
Oct 2025

Lots of Hispanic gangs in LA. And it apparently doesn’t matter if ICE deports US citizens. This could be a way for the to ‘make their numbers.’

Jilly_in_VA

(14,477 posts)
7. There would be a lot of crushed ICE there
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 03:55 PM
Oct 2025

shot and left in the streets. The gang lords would become instant HEROES!

Wiz Imp

(10,180 posts)
10. Was the same in DC too
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 05:01 PM
Oct 2025

If someone was stupid enough to believe they were actually trying to stop crime, it should have been obvious right away that was bullshit evidenced by the fact that they don't ever send anyone into the high crime areas in any city.

twodogsbarking

(19,012 posts)
12. Where I grew up they would call this going after "low hanging fruit".
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 05:16 PM
Oct 2025

Probably where you grew up too.

Generic Other

(29,082 posts)
13. I wonder where these thugs are recruited from
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 05:29 PM
Oct 2025

Clearly afraid of their own shadows. Sociologists of the future will have a field day examining their demographics.

They remind me of the soldiers from that old sitcom F-Troop. Not some elite corps.

Bluetus

(2,950 posts)
15. Just spitballing here, but could it be that
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 05:44 PM
Oct 2025

the gangs are better trained than the ICE cosplayers?

And none of the camera people would want to follow ICE into a guerilla battle zone of ICE's making?

Nululu

(1,116 posts)
16. SFO but not Oakland or Richmond
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 05:52 PM
Oct 2025

Also not to most expensive neighborhoods or hotels, etc. No footage from Beverly Hills or Mar a lago

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