
North Side Residents Work to Protect Their Immigrant Neighbors
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Foot traffic has slowed in some North Side Chicago neighborhoods amid immigration raids.
In recent weeks, Chicago's Northwest Side has seen an increase in federal immigration agents and raids. Community groups are working to protect their neighbors.
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North Side Residents Work to Protect Their Immigrant Neighbors
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In recent weeks, Chicago's Northwest Side has seen an increase in federal immigration agents and raids. Community groups are working to protect their neighbors.
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It's been a little over a month since since the Trump administration's operation Midway Blitz took over Chicago videos from across the city show confrontations between residents and federal immigration agents as they intensify enforcement operations.
Governor JB Pritzker is calling on the Department of Homeland Security to explain what he describes as, quote, out of control operations into account for the situations unfolding in local neighborhoods.
Our Joanna Hernandez is live in Rogers part to share how residents and local leaders are coming together in response to these developments.
Joanna.
>> Brandis, despite the risks neighborhoods, residents from neighborhoods like Roger Spark say that they are being targeted today are coming out help the community.
But despite that, they are forming groups to come out and we're in the community of what is happening over the weekend.
Ice agents were actually seen outside of this church causing community outrage.
>> So I go to Saint Jerome all the time.
I'm always here.
My family had a business for 20 years and now it's like nobody's hear noise out here.
Nobody shopping.
Nobody's going to the restaurants.
>> Louise is last describes the Rogers Park area as a ghost town.
In recent weeks.
The neighborhood has seen an increase of federal immigration agents.
>> A video shared by a local resident shows community volunteers confronting an ice vehicle.
I'm going whistles and warning others in the area is last has joined the efforts to patrol his community.
>> I feel like most of the groups that we have here in Rogers Park wearing expecting this specifically how they came at us.
They're very precise in the way that they got going to church, going to Local businesses are also feeling the impact been on this, who owns multiple businesses in the area says foot traffic is at its lowest since the pandemic.
And lead.
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>> spite of increased ice operations.
The community is fighting back other Kalen a social justice photographer in a volunteer with the Rogers Park Rapid Response Team is one of many residents who take turns guarding the street on the lookout for ICE agents.
People are scared rightfully so.
People are traumatized.
>> In the only war that is being implemented on Chicago is by the federal government.
And it also really constitutes the fact that we don't have was 10 list.
>> Federal immigration agents on Tuesday deployed tear gas and a group of residents on the city's southeast side after a crowd gathered at the scene of a car crash involving those agents last week, a judge issued a temporary order barring the use of tear gas and other riot control weapons against protesters and reporters who don't pose an immediate threat.
I know that not just here in Illinois but in other states and other cities like we are winning legal battles right?
>> For the enforcement protection upholding the law and the rights of all the residents.
We have a federal administration that continues to break the law.
And so it's a little bit of like a game of chicken.
Also on the north side in Albany Park, signs in business window say private property, no ice.
>> The area has also seen an increase in immigration operations with one incident leading agency throw tear gas on residents.
>> It was scary.
I think everybody's kind of been shaken up by it.
That's what motivated Trisha Grant to join a response group in her neighborhood >> these around the little free libraries just all around the neighborhood.
So they'll find these and there's little pamphlets and what you can do if you see a nice sight.
while the Trump administration has touted its Christian values.
>> Pastor Matthew Cranes argues that its actions contradict court teachings of the Bible.
>> It's Christianity that span that it's Christianity that's that's lost the basis of what Christianity is because Christianity was about caring for those who needed help.
>> Florida least ease last.
What's happening with immigration is personal.
A first generation Mexican-American who says he watched his parents and community give to this country only to be threatened by ice.
>> When community stand up and when they do this stuff, they cannot do what they have been doing and which is antagonizing our communities harassing us.
>> And within the hour that we've been out here, I've seen several people with orange whistles around their neck, meaning that they are patrolling the area and looking out for ICE agents brand is as of yesterday, DHS reports 1500 people have been arrested by ICE is Operation Midway.
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