βTerrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.β
βDiary of Anne Frank, January 13, 1943
Drones, Helicopters, Hundreds of Arrests: Trumpβs Immigration Crackdown in Chicago So Far
On Sunday, federal officers in camouflage patrolled tourist-heavy areas of downtown Chicago in a conspicuous pack, attracting stares and taunts, including from a bicyclist the agents tried to chase. On Monday, U.S. military officials said that 100 National Guard troops would be deployed to Illinois to protect federal facilities, a mobilization that is expected in the coming days.
And early on Tuesday, federal agents, using drones, helicopters, trucks and dozens of vehicles, conducted a middle-of-the-night raid on a rundown apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, leaving the building mostly empty of residents by morning and neighbors stunned.
βIt felt like we were under siege,β said one bystander, Darrell Ballard, 63, showing videos on his cellphone of officers entering the apartment building in the dark.
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Itβs happening again, now.
