JT Cestkowski

One organizer says Home Depot should change its slogan from “How doers get more done” to “How ICE meets its quota.”

This Home Depot has been repeatedly raided by DHS agents. Organizers point out the company has allowed these operations without doing the minimum to protect their customers like locking doors or releasing security video of arrests.

Home Depot protests are happening across the country this weekend. I’m live at the one in Cicero, IL. Demonstrators are calling the company to resist ICE’s abductions.

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LIVE STOP TRUMP'S ICE Protest at Home Depot in Chicago

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HAPPENING NOW
Dozens of volunteers are preparing to protect families out trick-or-treating in Chicago’s heavily Hispanic Little Village neighborhood from ICE agents. @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

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BREAKING: Six people, including congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, have been indicted on charges of "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees" and "Conspiracy to impede or injure officer," in connection w ICE protests at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

This follows the village repeatedly shrinking the hours and acceptable locations of protest outside the ICE facility.

Families of the abducted have frequently come to the aid tent because they are turned away when they try to approach the ICE facility to inquire where their loved ones even are.

The organizers were scrambling this evening to pack up the tent ahead of the Thursday deadline given by the village. They hope to relocate elsewhere, but don’t know where yet.

The village is citing its camping ordinance as reason. People had been staying overnight at the tent in part to ensure it is always staffed and also to prevent theft or vandalism.

EXCLUSIVE
Families of those abducted by ICE around Chicago will have one less resource because the Village of Broadview has ordered the mutual aid tent near the ICE detention facility be torn down. The tent connected families with lawyers and other help.

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JUST NOW
Border Patrol agents boxed in and arrested this woman on Chicago’s west side. Agents told me she was arrested for “impeding” but would not say how.

Audio removed where she yells her mom’s full name and phone number to protesters nearby. Story to come for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

JUST NOW
Boarder Patrol agents boxed in and arrested this woman on Chicago’s west side. Agents told me she was arrested for “impeding” but would not say how.

Audio removed where she yells her mom’s full name and phone number to protesters nearby. Story to come for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Today I interviewed Sergio Martinez in a Chicago suburb. He says he voted for Donald Trump.

And then last week ... his brother was abducted by federal agents.

Story to come for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Spotted outside of the Broadview, IL ICE detention facility: At least one ant Tifa.

This morning in Addison, IL, masked federal agents broke a car window. Witnesses said the agents never showed a warrant, handcuffed three people, and took a husband and wife. The couple’s family say they have lived here for decades. Story coming soon for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

PERSONAL NEWS
I’m @statuscoupnews.bsky.social’s new on-the-ground reporter! I’ve already been tear-gassed in Chicago and interviewed an inflatable pink shark at the Omaha No Kings protest. And I’m working on a lot more.

Today a lot of vote-blue-no-matter-who people in Omaha told me they would be down for a general strike.

It’s really on Dem leadership to harness this energy.

Hundreds of people have already gathered for the No Kings protest in Omaha, Nebraska.

After a couple of weeks juggling a newborn and covering the occupation of Chicago, I let myself touch grass today. Highly recommend.

A bus with bars in the windows just left the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. People were inside.

Broadview’s protest curfew is now in effect. Protests in the village of the ICE facility are not allowed until tomorrow at 9 am. Police just warned protesters that if they attempt to cross the street they will be arrested.

A group of around 100 protesters defied police and entered the protest area outside the Broadview ICE facility more than an hour before protests are allowed to start.

This truly bizarre. The Village of Broadview is one step removed from selling tickets for the right to protest ICE.

Protesters are starting to show up outside of the Broadview ICE facility, but police are making people stay across the street. The village has limited protests to start at 9AM CT.

It’s quiet outside of the Broadview ICE facility right now. Law enforcement has a presence out here. At least 8 cars. We expect protests today and tomorrow. Fridays and Saturdays have seen the most activity.

very different from my last job

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Illinois State Police have forced protesters back away from the street and sidewalk near the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility. Police in riot gear have arrived. This force was in response to protesters playing music and dancing in the street.

"We're all taking a risk to be here, we're all sacrificing our identities, our jobs, our livelihoods, to be here," protester says. "It's really scary because this is your lives, these are your jobs, nobody wants to sacrifice their comfort but...they will keep taking," -protester