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Rally and March Broadway ICE Facility Sunday, August 31st 12 PM 1930 Beach Street Broadway, IL

Today in Chicago, people attempting to do things the right and legal way, by showing up to immigration check-ins, were lured to ISAP and entrapped by ICE so that the fascists in the White House can meet their daily deportation quotas.

ICE agents arrest a dozen immigrants as elected officials try to block them in the South Loop Immigration advocates and several alderpersons gathered outside the building as the arrests were in progress. They say federal agents detained about a dozen people who had shown up for a routine immig...

Advocates say about a dozen immigrants were arrested by federal immigration agents Wednesday after receiving text messages to show up for a routine immigration appointment at an office in Chicago’s South Loop. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Local officials, protesters clash with ICE outside office over detentions in growing escalation over Trump’s immigration tactics In another sign of escalating tension over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, community organizers, protesters and several Chicago aldermen clashed with federal agents Wednesday.

Chicago aldermen got bruised up today tussling with ICE.

An April 17 call among 1,400 organizers for May Day rallies in Chicago, NY, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Raleigh, Philadelphia, and LA showed major energy and enthusiasm.

Huge crowds came out Thursday for combo of “Stop the Billionaire Agenda” “Stop the Deportations” & “Bring Kilmar Home” 👇🏽

it's not vibes, it's the fascist playbook

This is complete vibes-based observation, but it does seem like the admin comes down heavy-handed on immigration whenever they are in the midst of taking Ls in court and in public opinion.

Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.

Trump’s deportation machine is targeting the very people who feed America.

In Bakersfield, California, recent ICE raids have terrified families and left crops rotting in the fields.

This is cruelty by design & "a recipe for absolute economic devastation."

Breaking:

A federal judge ordered the Trump admin to provide hundreds of migrants sent to CECOT — the maximum-security prison in El Salvador — the opportunity to challenge their detention and removal.

The ruling is related to deportations ordered under the Alien Enemies Act.

NEW: The Trump administration has obeyed a court order to return a Guatemalan man improperly deported to Mexico in Feburary. His lawyer says he's en route to a detention facility in Arizona. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Abolish Government Sponsored Human Traffiking . ABOLISH ICE

If the people are united they will never be defeated!

¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!

Keep your eye out for more of these...

I guess this is what "not assisting ICE operations" looks like!

Three alderpeople (Anthony Quezada, Rosanna Rodriguez Sanchez, Byron Sigcho Lopez) on site at ISAP office. Cook County Commissioner Jessica Vasquez. Reportedly also a chief from the mayor's office, Kennedy Bartley.

Dave is there:

Crowd is reportedly growing at 2245 S Michigan. We've heard unconfirmed reports of 10 people detained, including an OCAD longtime member. ICE vehicles are in the alley but it’s not clear whether they will try to use those vehicles or go a different way.

101 W Ida B Wells is also where everyone snatched at immigration court was sent too. Relocating there now.

Folks OTG are calling for mobilization to shift to ICE Field Office further north at 101 W. Congress, where the person could potentially be transported first.

Typically detainees are then also processed at the processing center in Broadview, IL.

Protesters with signs and umbrellas in the rain

We're not at 2245 S Michigan, but someone just sent this in.

People have mobilized outside an ISAP (Intensive Supervision Appearance Program) office where a longtime member of OCAD was reportedly detained earlier today. Unknown whereabouts at this time, presumably being transported.

One of the agents literally said to the attorney, “I’m just following orders.”

Agents just took a young woman, early 20s. She was with her attorney.

Agents took her, crying, into a side room to separate her from her attorney. When the attorney tried to speak with her from the hallway, agents told her she was “interfering with law enforcement.”

Second half of immigration court hearings have begun at 55 Monroe in Chicago. We can't film inside or are kicked out.

Before lunch, we watched ICE take a half dozen people into custody after DHS dismissed their cases. It's happening in courthouses all over, including NYC at this exact moment.

While this was happening, ICE took a woman into detention as she left the courtroom.

Nearly all morning hearings have concluded. It sounded like agents intended to return for the afternoon.

His wife, a US citizen, is devastated.

Her husband is from Senegal. She said his case wasn’t dismissed & was continued by the judge to next year. They didn’t think he was at any immediate risk for deportation.

The cruelty is heartbreaking.

ICE just took the man who they mistook for the interpreter.

He looked young, 20s maybe. Dressed in a nice suit and tie. He had only a second to hug & say goodbye to the woman with him before agents, dressed in hoodies and ball caps, marched him out.

Agents just approached a man and tried to detain him.

He was a court interpreter. They let him go.

Agents are still here waiting to grab more people.

Pigs lie

Detention facility at 110 South Maple Avenue, Newkirk, OK

The two men we witnessed being detained by ICE two weeks ago are now being held at this building in Newkirk, Oklahoma.