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speakers have wrapped up and folks are dispersing without incident.

thanks for following along! i’m gonna go get warm now.

a speaker in a black coat talks to a crowd through a megaphone

a speaker with healthy hood chicago (missed their name sorry) talking about the importance of unity and solidarity.

“they want to keep us divided because they know that we’re stronger together.”

“they’re attacking chicago not because we’re weak but because we’re strong,” ellie says.

“we might be scared sometimes, but we’re not giving up. we might be cold, be we’re not staying home.”

pilsen resident ellie praises the community response to border patrol’s terror.

“if they wanna go after working people, working people can shut this shit down,” they say.

for context, it’s 33 degrees and snowing in chicago right now with a wind chill of 21.

“let’s let them hear us literally and metaphorically everyday until we’re free,” cepeda says.

the crowd chants, “all day, all night, we will not put up with ice!”

elias cepeda with pilsen defense and access slams cpd for helping federal
agents abduct chicagoans and politicians like mayor brandon johnson who are ultimately in charge.

sicho-lopez nods to martin luther king’a statement that, if you break the chains of oppression in chicago, you can break them everywhere

“as a chicagoan, i have never felt more proud of my city. and we will win!”

alder sigcho-lopez says feds arrested 7 people yesterday. one person is still detained, and he calls for their charges to be dropped.

he also denounces cpd’s participation in yesterday’s raids and calls on state’s attorney eileen o’neill burke to drop the charges for the 3 people cpd arrested.

chicago alder byron sigcho-lopez calls yesterday’s events “shameful” but also an example of the strength of our community.

he ties the fbi’s cooperation in trump’s mass deportation scheme to their murder of black panther leader fred hampton.

bovino, border patrol, and other feds also used the fbi’s chicago field office to regroup after a busy morning of abductions and being chased through the streets by caravans of angry residents.

according to pilsen defense & access, two of the people detained by feds were a 14 year old and 18 year old who stood in the way of agents to protect their mom.

they were taken, along with a handful of others, to the fbi field office in chicago, where they were held without contact or charges.

during their saturday morning terror spree, border patrol agents pointed weapons at bystanders, pepper sprayed a baby, + fired chemical munitions on a busy commercial street.

both the feds + chicago police arrested residents who had come out to oppose the masked soldiers abducting their neighbors.

happening now:

community members are gathering at the chicago fbi field office to demand ice and border patrol agents leave the city and stop terrorizing residents.

yesterday, the fbi and other feds helped greg bovino and a caravan of border patrol agents ravage little village and cicero.

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines).

For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

Little Village and the Southwest Side of Chicago deserves peace.

Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer.

CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino in Little Village, carrying a long gun and flanked by masked federal agents, at least one other who also has a long gun.

Federal immigration agents once again moving through Chicago's Little Village neighborhood this morning; Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino among them.

Video shared online a little after 10 am shows Bovino and another masked federal agent carrying long guns in the street near 26th and Troy.

crowd remains small and peaceful. maybe 25-50 folks still.

i’m headed out! thanks for following along.

a small sign with a qr code that reads “let broadview know this goes too far. mayor katrina thompson’s order violated the first amendment.”

a few of these signs expressing displeasure with the “free speech”zones have appeared

while this is going on, the feds are on an absolute tear through little village. greg bovino is on the ground.

agents have abducted multiple people and deployed at least one tear gas canister.

two deacons in white robes stand in a grassy field in prayer in front of an ofrenda

a few catholic deacons arrived to pray the rosary for the people imprisoned inside the broadview ice detention center.

they had first tried to gather on the west side of beach street, which is currently closed to protesters, but broadview police wouldn’t let them in.

at least 10 or so border patrol/ice agents at the opposite end of the block near harvard street. looks like they’re getting ready to head out for some abductions.

occasionally, an ice vehicle arrives or leaves from the broadview ice facility.

The way the "free speech zones" at Broadview were put up, have been policed, and continually keep shrinking is a microcosm of what's happening to free speech in America as a country.

after an hour-long protest in silence outside the broadview ice detention center, the handmaids end their demonstration and march away.

there are maybe 25-50 folks left in the “free speech” zone.

the current scene.

state/local police have shut down one of the “free speech” zones and are requiring all protesters to stand on the east side of beach.

the street is entirely closed to traffic yet cops arrest anyone who stands on the concrete barriers or steps into the street.

so many cops.

cook county sheriff’s police lead a person away in handcuffs down a street

while the handmaids demonstrate, cook county sheriff’s police just arrested a person for simply standing on the concrete barricades surrounding the “free speech” area.

now about two dozen cops in the street facing protesters.

one person in the crowd yelled, “is this what deescalation looks like?”

a group of people in red hooded robes stand in two lines. many hold red umbrellas.

the group of handmaids made a slow procession to the “free speech” zone outside the broadview detention center.

they’re now silently standing in two rows, facing the building. many are holding red umbrellas that read “dissent is patriotic.”

outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois:

the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.

Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared Abductions by federal immigration agents follow recent city-sponsored evictions of homeless residents from public parks.

“There were about seven other day laborers on the corner there that scattered, and [the agents] seemed to just grab the first person they could get their hands on,” a witness told @katieprout.bsky.social.

Horrifying reporting on unhoused people disappearing: chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...