Black Hawks, flashbangs, kids in zip ties

[struggle4progress]

CNN
Oct 4, 2025

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. All were part of a multiagency operation that led to the arrest of 37 undocumented immigrants, most of them from Venezuela but also including people from Mexico, Nigeria and Colombia, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN. In the past weeks, federal agents have been deployed on the streets of Chicago and have arrested more than 800 undocumented immigrants since September 8 during what the administration has titled “Operation Midway Blitz,” according to a news release from DHS. Tenants said it appears everyone in the building was detained by federal officers, including US citizens.

[Klarkashton]

1. What the weenie meant by "warrior ethos'

More like 'wanker ethos"

[struggle4progress]

2. Congress members rally around residents

Federal agents landed a helicopter on a building at 7500 S. South Shore Dr. on Wednesday morning, arresting 37 people and leaving behind cracked windows, broken doors and a lot of pain. Lawmakers call for a halt to all federal immigration enforcement in Chicago.

By Mary Norkol
Oct 5, 2025, 9:58pm EDT

... “This is a part of what’s become and will be one of the most shameful periods in American history. But it’s not too late to wake up and to turn it around,” Garcia said. “This isn’t just about immigrants. This is about controlling every one of our communities, Black, Brown, poor, working class” ...

On Sunday, large slabs of plywood covered the doors to several units in the building, at 7500 S. South Shore Drive. Broken glass lay on the ground outside the building near busted-out windows. A cardboard sign reading “The fascists who did this have names and addresses” was posted on a fence outside ...

Also Sunday, dozens of city leaders signed a letter in support of Ald. Jessie Fuentes, who was handcuffed and briefly detained at Humboldt Park Hospital. Video shows Fuentes asking officers for a signed judicial warrant for a man held in custody at the hospital before an agent forces her hands behind her back and handcuffs her ...

“Showing a warrant before detention is not optional; it’s a cornerstone of constitutional law,” the letter reads. It was signed by 37 City Council members and Mayor Brandon Johnson, city clerk Anna Valencia and city treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin. “And yet, ICE agents continue to ignore this requirement” ...'

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/05/congress-members-rally-south-shore-apartment-ice-raid

[Bayard]

4. If ICE is ignoring laws,

Can't they be arrested like anyone else?

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3. Immigration agents increasingly aggressive in Chicago

News | Oct 5, 2025
By Sophia Tareen Associated Press

CHICAGO — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital ...

“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN. “They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone” ...

While federal agents have mostly focused on immigrant-heavy and Latino enclaves, the operation early Tuesday unfolded in the largely Black South Shore neighborhood that’s had a small influx of migrants resettled in Chicago while seeking asylum ...

Rodrick Johnson was among the U.S. citizens briefly detained and said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties ...

https://www.vaildaily.com/news/using-helicopters-and-chemical-agents-immigration-agents-become-increasingly-aggressive-in-chicago/

[AZJonnie]

5. Gotta love the weaselly-ass way CNN presents the 2nd and 3rd "facts" in the story

Simple propaganda tactic at work here, emphasis added by myself, to illustrate what they want your brain to register by writing these sentences this way.

"All were part of a multiagency operation that led to the arrest of 37 undocumented immigrants, most of them from Venezuela but also including people from Mexico, Nigeria and Colombia, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN.

In the past weeks, federal agents have been deployed on the streets of Chicago and have arrested more than 800 undocumented immigrants since September 8 during what the administration has titled “Operation Midway Blitz,” according to a news release from DHS

So transparent.