Ashley Huebner

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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BREAKING: Illinois has filed suit to block Trump's deployment of the military to Chicago.

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JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al.

He has ordered discovery on the question.
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According to AILA, ICE is launching a nationwide operation today, Friday, 10/3, reportedly named “Freaky Friday,” that will target unaccompanied children aged 14 and older of all nationalities.

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Trump’s Chicago ICE Crackdown Intensifies With Drones, Helicopters and Trucks

Chicago: “The Border Patrol official said that snipers rappelled down from helicopters on top of the apartment complex, as a precaution from potential violence.”

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

ILLINOIS — BROADVIEW POLICE CHIEF ON ICE: “I was shocked. I’ve never been spoken to by a fellow law enforcement officer in such a way.”

ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

We'd ask, "What steps is ICE going to take going forward to ensure those in its custody are safe?" but we already know the answer is none since they don't take any steps to prevent the injuries or illnesses brought on by the detention conditions themselves.

Federal district court judges are almost UNANIMOUSLY rejecting the government's new interpretation of a 1996 law to bar release from ICE detention to millions of people. Yet the Board of Immigration Appeals, fresh off a purge of Biden appointees, made it official precedent.

Broadview orders removal of 'illegal' fencing erected outside ICE facility following protests For weeks, protesters have tried to block the entrance to the compound used for processing detained immigrants. In turn, federal officers have often pushed demonstrators and fired rubber bullets and c...

Broadview Fire Department said the village was reaching out to the DHS “to demand the fence be removed immediately” because it was installed “illegally” without a permit.

“In case of fire or other emergencies… Broadview fire apparatus would be unable to use the road to accesss these businesses.”

Fence in front of building in the dark

Per photographer Matthew Kaplan this morning, ICE has now fenced off the street in front of the Broadview processing facility.

Dreamers have legal protection nationwide—but ICE agents are still targeting them for detention and deportation. And given the lack of transparency and scale of the recent ICE raids in cities like Chicago, it’s impossible to know how many people have been taken. (1/2)

MEMORANDUM OPINION Just before midnight on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, several Executive Branch agencies began to implement a plan to expel from the United States certain unaccompanied alien children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services and send them back to their home country of Guatemala. Those agencies told the children's caretakers, who were hearing about the plan for the first time, to have them ready for pickup in as little as two hours. The children were roused from their beds in the middle of the night and driven to an airport, where some were loaded onto planes. Lawyers got wind of this hasty operation while it was unfolding and filed this lawsuit seek- ing emergency relief that Sunday at 1:00 a.m. The judge on emergency duty entered a temporary restraining order barring the agencies and their officials from removing or otherwise transporting the children from the United States. At a hearing later that day, counsel for Defendants explained why it was "fairly outrageous" for Plaintiffs to have sued: all Defendants wanted to do was reunify children with parents who had requested their return. But that explanation crumbled like a house of cards about a week later. There is no evidence before the Court that the parents of these children sought their return. To the contrary, the Guatemalan Attorney General reports that officials could Case 1:25-cv-02942-TJK Document 49 Filed 09/18/25 Page 2 of 43 not even track down parents for most of the children whom Defendants found eligible for their "reunification" plan. And none of those that were located had asked for their children to come back to Guatemala.

Case 1:25-cv-02942-TJK Document 48 Filed 09/18/25 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA L.G.M.L. et al., Plaintiffs, V. KRISTI NOEM et al., Civil Action No. 25-2942 (TJK) Defendants. ORDER For the reasons set forth in the Court's accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that: 1. Plaintiffs Motion to Certify Class, ECF No. 6, is GRANTED to the extent it is consistent with the class described below. It is further ORDERED that the following class is PROVISIONALLY CERTIFIED under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(2): all unaccompanied alien children from Guatemala who are or will be in the custody of Defendants and who (1) are not subject to an executable final order of removal and (2) have not been permitted to voluntarily depart under 8 U.S.C. § 1229c and applicable regulations;

2. Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction, ECF No. 20, is GRANTED. It is further ORDERED that Defendants, their agents, representatives, and all persons or entities in concert with them are ENJOINED from transferring, repatriating, removing, or otherwise facilitating the transport of any Plaintiff including both named Plaintiffs and all members of the provisionally certified class— from the United States; Case 1:25-cv-02942-TJK Document 48 Filed 09/18/25 Page 2 of 2 3. It is further ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall, by September 22, 2025, post a $1.00 bond in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c). SO ORDERED. /s/ Timothy J. Kelly TIMOTHY J. KELLY United States District Judge

BREAKING: Saying that the Trump administration’s explanation for its Labor Day weekend effort to send children to Guatemala “crumbled like a house of cards” upon examination, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, grants provisional class certification and a preliminary injunction.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

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Watch (or Rewatch) the powerful film "I'm Still Here" (2024) - Dir. Walter Salles. An amazing performance by Fernanda Torres.

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Everything's going great in the Article III branch

The Judicial Learning Curve by Anna Bower on Lawfare "District Court judges watch each other struggle with the Trump administration--and adapt."

NEW: The law is supposed to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being summarily whisked out of the country by ICE in the dead of night.

But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that.

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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.

Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.