New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:

In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations

Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...

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Chicago’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability is holding a listening session where residents can share what they want to see in their next Police Superintendent. Last week, I published a story for @unraveledpress.com press diving into the commission’s current turmoil.

Civilian oversight blues: inside Chicago’s ongoing police accountability meltdown

Chicago has a new community police oversight body that emerged in response to the historic 2020 protests. According to those elected to serve, however, it’s already full of cops.

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Lagunas was identified on social media by community ICE watchdog Ismael Cordová-Clough one week ago. In both Chicago and Minneapolis, he has threatened people by telling them they won't "like the outcome" if they continue observing. We've watched his behavior escalate over the last year.

New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:

Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia

A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...

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I want to thank every single one of you guys that donated and is helping my friend get through this. We surpassed the initial goal! But we’re keeping the fundraiser open because we need to find lawyers for her case+kiddos and lawyers for her husband’s case. www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-fa...

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Chicago (and elsewhere)— We really, really need you to show up for this one. This amount of $ is a drop in the bucket for someone with means. A traumatized family is facing an emergency, and every second counts. We don't know where the detention pipeline could take this father next.

Andres A. Chavez@andral404.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know I have been uploading a bunch of money asks. But please consider helping my dear friend who is going through it. www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-fa...

I know I have been uploading a bunch of money asks. But please consider helping my dear friend who is going through it. www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-fa...

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unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3mo ago

Happening now in Chicago: community members and activists are in the La Villita/Little Village neighborhood to demonstrate against continued ICE violence in across the country. In just the last two weeks, ICE agents have killed 2 men. A 3rd died running from agents, and a 4th died in ICE custody.

On Friday, CPD officials sat before Chicago’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights and assured alders that they didn’t need to investigate Border Patrol agent Charles Exum’s shooting of Marimar Martinez because the FBI was on it.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

Off the ground now. Good night to everyone except the cops hanging out in the air conditioned CPD van watching the assembly earlier.

In Chicago’s Little Village, locals are currently holding an evening rally and vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, two fathers killed by ICE just six days away from each other.

Hey, how’s your day going? Because I watched yet another video of an immigration agent killing a man.

Reported ICE sightings also in Rogers Park, Humboldt Park, Stone Park and Logan Square.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3mo ago

It's just before 9am in Chicago. Kidnappings by masked federal police continue (and continue, and continue). So far this morning, agents have been spotted in Back of the Yards and West Ridge.

Live posting from Albany Park today 85 degrees out and we’re at the ribbon cutting ceremony of the brand new Ronan park gateway. What is supposed to be a symbolic ceremony and celebration with music and neighbors gathering, it seems like the topic of the is the encampment behind the structure.

New: Chicago finance chair Pat Dowell has written to Mayor Brandon Johnson, saying a proposed ownership transfer of Chicago's privatized parking meter system to Stonepeak Partners doesn't have the necessary support to go forward. Stonepeak owns Omni Air, which conducts ICE deportation flights.

Another update! The # of victims keeps rising and it will continue to do so as those trapped under the rubble run out of time That being said people on the ground have been incredibly resilient and haven’t really stopped after a week We are trusting our friends to distribute resources efficiently

Just to keep all of you incredibly generous people up to speed. Some of the money is being used to directly support the “Rescatistas” —first responders, volunteers, & people digging up rubble—. They’ve been asking for coffee, water, and sugar as they work for hours.

Thanks y’all!! We’ve reached the goal of $600, and the money has been sent to people on the ground supporting first responders and volunteers. I’ll leave the code up in case more people would like to donate. All this money is going directly to people on the ground helping families and victims.

Andres A. Chavez@andral404.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m trying to raise a few hundred dollars to support mutual aid efforts in my home city after this week’s devastating earthquake. Feel free to reach out for more details!

I’m trying to raise a few hundred dollars to support mutual aid efforts in my home city after this week’s devastating earthquake. Feel free to reach out for more details!

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

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It is wild to me how little attention the ramping up of ICE activity in Chicagoland is getting. Feds changed their tactics, operations are faster, more targeted, and broader operation range. My colleagues @djbyrnes1.bsky.social, @zoetakaki.bsky.social and @domguan.bsky.social wrote about it.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 4mo ago

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

This story took a lot. On several days that seemed like it'd be good to finalize things, we'd hear of some new ICE fracas we needed to include in the data and reporting. Now that it's done, kudos to @zoetakaki.bsky.social, @domguan.bsky.social and @andral404.bsky.social for their incredible work.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 4mo ago

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

This story took a lot; watching traumatizing videos of abductions and creating data out of ever-changing numbers. Proud of my @unraveledpress.com team. Thanks @domguan.bsky.social, @djbyrnes1.bsky.social, and @andral404.bsky.social for your collaboration on this story. It’s an important one.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 4mo ago

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

Just so this doesn’t get lost in the thread, there were unconfirmed reports in RR networks of gunshots heard, but so far it seems like this was not the case.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 4mo ago

Per CPD dispatch audio, police received a call for shots fired related to this incident. But Chicago police who responded to the scene reported no shots fired to CPD dispatch after speaking to a DHS agent, and also reported they found no shell casings. Krueger also denied hearing any shots fired.

The resident who shared the video, Edward Krueger, also provided a photo of the crashed red car. We arrived on scene hours later, after 2 pm. But signs of the collision were still evident.

Earlier today rapid responders reported federal agents detaining someone on Grace & Olcott in Chicago. A nearby resident got video of an unmarked SUV striking a red car at high speed in the residential area around 10:24 am. He then described seeing men in tactical vests on scene, one marked "ICE."

Happening now in Albany Park: Protesters are gathering in the corner of Kedzie and Lawrence to protest ICE’s increasing activity in Chicago. On Tuesday morning a man was was taken by federal agents by this intersection, sparking two days of protests and demonstrations.

Federal immigration agents are still swamping Chicagoland. Sightings in multiple city neighborhoods and in the suburbs today, with reports of at least three people being taken. "ICE is everywhere," the immigrant advocacy/rapid response group Hijos de Migrantes posted in an alert earlier today.