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“We are not a violent city. This is not a war zone, & I think these guys are terrorizing us & trying to incite us,” said Conway. “We want them out. We want them to stop kidnapping our neighbors.”
#Chicago, a city of 2.7 million, has long been known as a patchwork of close-knit neighborhoods. And since the city took center stage of #Trump’s #immigration crackdown in September, those neighborhoods have mobilized against enforcement efforts, sometimes block-by-block.
The squad of agents had appeared in Lakeview last month, an upscale neighborhood dotted with dog daycares, medical spas & vegan restaurants, hopping over a gate to chase down a construction worker who was handcuffed & shoved into a vehicle.
When Courtney Conway, a 42-yr-old lifelong #Chicago resident, heard about the chase through FB groups & text message chains, she hopped on her bike to join the #protesters.
#Trump #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism
“We are not a violent city. This is not a war zone, & I think these guys are terrorizing us & trying to incite us,” said Conway. “We want them out. We want them to stop kidnapping our neighbors.”
#Chicago, a city of 2.7 million, has long been known as a patchwork of close-knit neighborhoods. And since the city took center stage of #Trump’s #immigration crackdown in September, those neighborhoods have mobilized against enforcement efforts, sometimes block-by-block.
That hyperlocal effort, spun off into dozens of chats on social platforms, has helped create a type of zone defense that - activists say - has slowed down #immigration agents & in some cases forced them to withdraw without making an arrest.
…Over 3,000 people have been detained in #Chicago since early September, acc/to #DHS.
#Trump #law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Authoritarianism #fascism #Tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
In Facebook groups & on Signal chats, tens of thousands of residents regularly #crowdsource information on #immigration agents’ last-known locations, neighborhoods being targeted that day & — importantly — the license plates, makes & models of the rental cars used by agents, which can change daily.
Some #ICE-spotting Facebook pages in #Chicago have up to 50,000 members.
#resist #Trump #law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Authoritarianism #fascism #Tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
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