Jeffrey Janusch

DHS regularly posts faces, names & personal details about journalists & arrestees to social media, often accompanied with inflammatory, dehumanizing language & false accusations.

They freely expose everyday people to personal security risks, while claiming their armed fed agents live in terror.

This reminds me: A few CBP agents were recently overheard complaining about how much they *hate* the whistles. Apparently, in addition to the obvious, the racket makes it harder for them to communicate with each other.

A central part of ICE's strategy here is to keep detainees hungry and thirsty in squalor to incentivize them to sign self-deportation papers to escape their inhumane conditions. And of course, they also lie to their captives about what they are signing.

No government agency is safe. They’re all working with ICE.

Fucking Governor Pritzker ‘pleading’ with the feds to pause their terror campaign ‘just for Halloween please?’ while his State Police are helping the Feds abuse protesters. They just don’t put the effort into posturing like they used to.

ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.

Outside Chicago—

State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.

A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.

Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

Rahm Emanuel … For President? He’d like you to keep an open mind.

Rahm Emanuel talks about the police murder of Laquan McDonald today very differently than he did in 2021:

“Emanuel has said that he needed to let the official process play out. ‘If the mayor weighs in, you’re basically compromising those investigations,’” he tells @theatlantic.com (1/2)

Robin Hood would have to kill you So last night I attended a town hall organized by my alderman’s office, and the purpose was to educate ward residents about the realities of the proposed municipal budget for 2026, which will be ha…

I realize that all of the alt text of the fact sheet wouldn’t fit into the images, so I’ve reprinted it in its entirety at the end of a blog post you can find here:

idwarrior.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/r...

The liberal conceit that our political economy can serve both the whims of the investor class and the needs of the labor class has ultimately led us to the shitkicker fascism of Trump and MAGA. A financial transactions tax *can work*, and it will cause no harm to anyone, not even the fat cats.

After having slept on it, I’m validating my post-town hall gut feeling that Chicago’s entire budget crisis is a perennial farce as long as the interests that profit from its existence are allowed to keep their skimming games completely untouched by those of us trying to mitigate their damage.

CNN: Immigration detention center to be built in Utah with expected capacity for 10,000 Utah is among five states set to receive a new migrant detention center with capacity for 10,000 people, according to CNN.

Massive concentration camp to be built in Utah

www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...

ICE is hitting the west burbs again this morning, including Oak Park and Bensenville, also now active in far south/SE sides after getting started a little later than usual.

SERR reports one person was taken from a McDonald's: instagram.com/p/DQURyhTjnPc

MAGA alder Napolitano, a former cop, probably has some kind of agreement to leave their “illegals” alone.

A bunch of newly activated people in Chicago need to read this. A troubling number of people believe the police "are on our side" because they have largely followed the law and orders they've been given about not helping ICE. The police will never be "on our side." Sometimes, they're just reined in.

Damn. It’s now become cystal clear that, like Pritzker, Johnson’s gonna use his uniformed muscle to run interference for ICE.
We’re on our own.

Outside the Chicago area ICE detention center in Broadview this afternoon, fed caravans are coming and going to drop off captives.

ICE and CBP are kidnapping people all over the city and suburbs today—our new "normal."

As usual, we've seen several vehicles with no license plates enter.

They and the cops all need to lose their qualified immunity.

I was a paramedic for 32 years and retired three years ago at 55. Not having to work anymore at an early age is something to look forward to. I never made my job my entire identity like some of my coworkers did and I don’t miss it one bit.

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active.

Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.

If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.

ICIRR alert in which they describe ICE arrests of rideshare drivers at an O’hare lot.

ICE is once again targeting rideshare divers at O’hare parking lots. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights says that multiple people have been detained. This is at least the third incident in the last few weeks involving ICE and rideshare drivers at O’hare.

What part of “Don’t appease fascists” does he not get? Trump took Pritzker’s intervention as a sign of weakness, and doubled down on the invasion.
Pritzker had the option to do nothing. But he made a decision to enable Trump’s invasion of Chicago.