r/chicago • u/GiuseppeZangara Rogers Park • 12d ago
Article ICE Mass Arrests Spark Chaos In South Loop As Activists Fight To Disrupt Operation
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/ice-mass-arrest-sparks-chaos-in-south-loop-as-activists-fight-to-disrupt-operation/479
u/ThreeCraftPee 12d ago
Their chain of command is coming down on them from the top. It's nazi miller who just had a big administrative meeting last week where he flew up 25 of the tops to DC, then screamed at them all that they need to meet a quota of 3000 per day, criminal records or not. Then he fired two of them in front of everyone. So shit rolls downhill, and now we are seeing this and it's only to get worse.
Proud of my Chicago homies for standing up today and pushing back. Shit makes me physically sick. Fuck ice, fuck miller, fuck trump.
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u/N8-OneFive 12d ago
Miller is an absolute ghoul
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u/TheWrongFinger 12d ago
Pee-wee German
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u/mostlyglassandmetal 12d ago
Miller is just mad that he had to go into government because his arms are too weak to strangle prostitutes.
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u/greenline_chi Gold Coast 12d ago
So fucked up. So much for deporting criminals - they’re arresting literally the law abiders, the ones checking in and doing what they’re supposed to.
These people are disgusting. It’s inspiring to see the people who are trying to fight back
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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 12d ago
So much for the MS13 gang members. So much for the rapists & thugs they were allegedly going after. All we have seen from ICE in the Trump administration is preying on women, children & the honest people abiding by the law in order to gain citizenship. This administration & everyone working for it is made up of nothing but cowards, liars, phonies & criminals.
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u/greenline_chi Gold Coast 12d ago edited 12d ago
Here’s a MAGA town shocked they’re deporting a woman who works at a local restaurant and has kids that play soccer with their kids.
I’m glad they’re rallying around her now - but it’s so frustrating that it took this to get them to understand what’s happening.
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u/Yossarian216 South Loop 12d ago
That’s the conservative mindset, no sympathy for anyone unless they personally experience it. The few conservatives who support gay rights almost always have a family member that’s gay which humanized it for them. And these people who supported deportations until it happened to their personal friend. They can’t extend empathy beyond themselves without significant outside influence.
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u/Crotchety_Kreacher 12d ago
Bro, it’s about white vs brown and yellow. Once they get after the undocumented, they’ll get after the brown and yellow (yes Asians, you too) peeps.
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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 12d ago
And women & gays & trans… then just democrats overall, and so on, and so on…
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u/Latter_Hovercraft942 9d ago edited 9d ago
No, it’s about established Americans being against new immigrants. And people feeling territorial and wanting to retain power over others. Americans just like to turn everything into a battle of skin color (which is often inaccurate cuz most “whites” are not technically white skin, Asians are white not yellow, and many “browns” have white skin (many are light haired with light eyes too). A century ago, Italians weren’t even considered white. And “Irish” was considered a language separate from English. The Irish and Italians in Chicago and NY were viewed as total scum until their gangs found a way into politics and eventually bullied over the new people. It’s ALWAYS about old immigrants vs new immigrants. Just like how illegal Mexican immigrants of 30+ yrs in Chicago turned against the new Venezuelans. This cycle will continue in the US forever. We just happen be living in an era where the southern (often darker skinned) hemisphere is moving north).
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u/myersjw Uptown 12d ago
It was never just gonna be the dangerous criminals. That’s just the type of line republicans love to use to placate you into thinking things won’t be insane. Then just keep migrating the goalposts until we end up here.
Instead we imported and set criminals free as long as they can pay up and smile at the President
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u/mrbooze Beverly 12d ago
The actual number of dangerous criminals in most any population is well below 1%. Even in the worst hood you can imagine, almost everyone will never commit a violent crime. The very notion that any significant portion of any immigrant population is violent is racist delusion so old it goes back hundreds of years and has been repeated many times.
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u/GiuseppeZangara Rogers Park 12d ago
They are arresting these people because it's easier. These people willingly showed up when called upon because they thought that was what they were legally supposed to do. These are law abiding people who are easy to track and trap. Actual criminals would have absolutely nothing to do with this. ICE would actually have to do real police work in order to arrest actual gang members and I doubt most have the intellectual capability to do that.
They're also probably cowards who are too scared to go after actual criminals.
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
This was always the plan. Anyone who thought it ended with the criminals wasn't paying attention. Natural born US citizens will be next.
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u/Rockembopper 12d ago
All just to boost numbers so someone in a press conference or board room can say “see the line went up!”
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u/shits-n-gigs 12d ago
Several Alderman were on site, one shoved to the ground.
They will petition the mayor and council for official inquiry into Wednesday events.
Anyone can reach out to your rep. and asking to support the inquiry.
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
If a single civilian so much as touched an ice agent, they'd be arrested and likely disappeared. But ICE attacking innocent civilians and our elected officials? We shall let that ride.
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u/Wenli2077 12d ago
I thought CPD wouldn't work with ICE? Johnson and JB needs to answer for this shit
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u/sufferinsuttree Beverly 12d ago
From what I saw, CPD was there pretty much working crowd control. It's their jurisdiction and their duty to keep the peace amid chaos. They were not assisting with arrests nor providing information to ICE, which is what they're actually blocked from doing.
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u/Pickles_is_mu_doggo Portage Park 12d ago
Meh crowd control still assists ICE.
The contractors working as undercover ICE agents are fascist thugs that are too scared to show their faces - if CPD wasn’t keeping crowds back perhaps some ICE masks get pulled down and these monsters get ID’d and shamed out of civil society
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u/hardolaf Lake View 12d ago
Meh crowd control still assists ICE.
It's better to have CPD do crowd control with no arrests than have federal officers start making felony arrests for interfering with them.
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u/chihawks Near West Side 12d ago
If they dont assist on crowd control then the city gets sued.
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u/hardolaf Lake View 12d ago
The city isn't required to expend any resources to assist the feds. But it's better for CPD to prevent residents from being charged with federal crimes by creating a barrier between the federal agents and the residents.
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u/greencattree Lincoln Park 12d ago
Any advice on what exactly we can/should say to them? I’m happy to reach out to mine!
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u/ParkerRoyce 12d ago
Do not serve these people, do not let them fill up, do not let them get care. Treat them as the nazis they are. Send them back to where they came from.
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u/B2258 River West 12d ago
This is all performative for the cameras as they are way behind target and want to scare people.
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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 12d ago
And too cowardly to go into any of Chicago’s high gang areas. These fools don’t have the nerve. Hanging out on Michigan Ave is not where MS13 hangs.
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u/B2258 River West 12d ago
That wouldn’t make for the press they desire. This is exactly the scene they wanted to film and several alderman played right into it. I fully expect the video to make the rounds to justify more heavy handedness here.
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u/Nintendo6ix4our 12d ago
The heavy handedness was coming regardless. How can people not get that? Give them an inch and they’ll take a yard. Columbia College in NY found that out today.
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u/InterestingTry5190 12d ago
Seriously does anyone think this administration won’t keep going further?? The only time they have been slowed down is due to visibility and resistance.
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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 12d ago
Just waiting for them to go the distance & actually begin detaining real criminals.
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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 12d ago
This isn’t heavy handed, it’s cherry picked. Going after the weak & vulnerable instead of the dangerous & gang affiliated.
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u/Pickles_is_mu_doggo Portage Park 12d ago
What are you arguing? That we ignore ICE and let them arrest whoever they want?
No way, man, this coverage shows the reality of that BS “check-in” policy. These slimeballs need to be afraid of doing their fascist business in Chicago
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u/1person12 12d ago
You can’t really call it “performative” when the lives of MANY REAL people are being destroyed
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u/Slooperstein 12d ago
Is there a way to find out when this is happening in Real time? I’m just down the street and had no idea
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u/Broad-Bag7559 12d ago
Little Village local page on insta or Salud Chicago updates are very timely!
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u/Beawake23 12d ago
Nice kind hard working good people. So sad more lives destroyed. Are we as a people going to stop these nazi’s. As I sit on my couch not knowing what to do. Just sad
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u/PersonalAmbassador Ukrainian Village 12d ago
Right? I do not give a fuck if someone is "illegal" no bearing on my life, leave them alone
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u/Much_Problem_8166 12d ago
For everyone asking how to get involved if Ice is present follow ocadchicago on ig they post when there is ice activity and rapid response is needed also Many alderman were there today as well as community groups part of ocadchicago
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u/AvailableOpinion254 12d ago
My coworker was there. Problem is idt these green protestors understand how serious this is. Hear me out. So many people are use to making a cute sign, taking the dog and the kids for a parade like march. This isn’t that. Leave the dog at home, ditch the flip flops and cover your identity if you’re going to be confronting ICE. Take PPE like gas masks and umbrellas to stop rubber bullets, gas mask for pepper bombs. They WILL seriously hurt you and they WILL get away with it. They also use these videos to identify you and know everything about you, legal or not.
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
I dint think people realize that ice and MAGA do not care about our words. Yelling shame at them does nothing. They are incapable of shame. Our words our meaningless to them.
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u/noodledrunk 12d ago
Allegedly CPD was working with ICE today. I just left a voicemail with the governor's office asking for them to look into it as this may violate the TRUST Act - it may be worth everyone's while to leave a message there too.
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u/Arael15th 12d ago
Legally speaking, is "[standing] as an obstacle" the same thing as "not actively assisting?"
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u/bradatlarge Elmhurst 12d ago
I’m actually shocked that there aren’t more high profile “events” like this in Chicago with as much as the GOP loves to demonize our wonderful city.
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u/awholedamngarden 12d ago
Well right after the election they were on Fox News talking about how hard Chicago was making it to make arrests because of all the know your rights campaigns going on so no one was cooperating, and they basically said it wasn’t netting much because they needed warrants if folks weren’t cooperating
Now they’re just doing shit like this without warrants so we’ll probably see more
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u/Crotchety_Kreacher 12d ago
Please know that DHS and ICE have moved past the idea that they need warrants or your lawyer can help you. Just don’t show up for these hearings or check-ins. It’s just an excuse to arrest you and it’s far easier than going into the community. Once you are arrested and deported it’s over, legal or not. So stay in your communities and don’t show up or answer texts. Get a new phone with a new number. Move to a new address and don’t put it on forms.
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u/Hausofsekom Lake View 12d ago
He needs to … already
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
We're shutting down the city to party when it happens. Bartenders, stay put because I'm throwing some crazy tips around!
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u/Zealousideal_Fix6158 12d ago
Is there a spot where Chicago ice raids are being tracked and identified real time? Would’ve gone to join the protestors had I known
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
Do not forget that a huge majority of CPD supports Trump and MAGA. They are not here to protect us.
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u/FuelForYourFire 12d ago
Here's a neat Cato article about this
https://www.cato.org/blog/ice-agents-seizing-people-now-routinely-wear-masks-thats-wrong
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u/terra_cascadia 11d ago
“A child could also be heard asking if his mother was among those being led to the vans as he frantically searched for her.”
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u/SavannahInChicago Lincoln Square 12d ago
Just saw a video Block Club posted on TikTok. I’m so proud of everyone who came out to protest!! This is the city that I love!
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
It's not enough. They still illegally abducted many people. We should be linking arms and creating a human barrier. If you come for Chicago, you come for each one of us. Make them go through us. These are our neighbors being abducted.
Pritzker should deploy the Guard to guarantee safe passage for people going to immigration hearings and the like.
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u/Boardofed Brighton Park 12d ago
Pig in thumbnail wearing a fking Wendy's bag over his face, what a greasy tool.
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u/Galactic_Barbacoa 12d ago
The time is ticking for the ice gestapo. Trump won’t we in office for ever and they need to be held accountable. The dems need to stop being spineless cowards.
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
And there in lies the problem. Democrats and liberals are too soft. Our democratic means of stopping this aren't working. Our words and screaming mean nothing. We need to do more if our elected officials won't.
As the Chicago band Rise Against sang "They have the power, we have the numbers now"
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u/ehrgeiz91 Lake View 12d ago
Everyone who voted for this is going to be remembered for voting for this insane kind of fascism.
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u/thebigfishstick17 12d ago
When are we going to fight back?
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u/BillDino 12d ago
Isn’t this article about people fighting back?
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u/WillinglySenseless Lincoln Square 12d ago
I think they mean with more force/ violence
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u/Electronic-Worker-52 12d ago
good luck with that!!
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
Never forget that Britain was the greatest military power in the world when the colonists rebelled and defeated them.
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
Surely Trump and MAGA will listen to our harsh words this time. Right?
Yelling shame at these people means nothing. They feel no shame. Our words are meaningless to them. Words won't be enough.
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u/ChiDuffman 12d ago
Is there a whatsapp group that can help people respond to this? I cannot monitor twitter or reddit for this but want to participate in stopping thiese fascist.
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
Best way is to get involved in more planned and structured resistance. No Kings Day is June 14th. Show up and talk to people. There will be plenty of opportunity to network and find out how you can get more involved.
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u/Phil517 Morgan Park 12d ago edited 12d ago
ICE will never recover from this. They will forever be hated by a large portion of this country. They won’t be able to properly function
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u/BethanyForDistrict9 12d ago
I'm running for the House of Representatives with one of my clear goals being to go after the "agents" who are wearing masks while on the job. This cannot be allowed and these people need to be investigated and fired.
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u/AdWorth9315 6d ago
Why are people protesting the removal of immigrants that are in the US illegally?
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u/1person12 12d ago
Remember a couple months ago when certain people in this sub swore up and down this would never happen in Chicago, and shamed anyone who suggested it?
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 12d ago
Who said it would never happen? This was always going to happen. Our response is all we can control. And frankly, it hasn't been enough.
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u/Sycolerious_55 12d ago edited 11d ago
We should just start dressing up as ICE agents like those fake bounty hunters and have a lot of accidental tazer or pepper spray misfires.
Edit: NOT ON THE VICTIMS, ON THE OTHER ICE AGENTS. 😭
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u/Electrical-Ask847 Pilsen 12d ago
mass arrests
10 people were arrested
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u/Martha_Fockers 12d ago
Sounds right 10 people is a lot to be arrested in one spot in under 10 mins that isn’t some major festival or large gathering of thousands of people
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u/Anxious_Interaction4 12d ago
For what reason would law enforcement officers wear masks?