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US #BorderPatrol Commander-at-large Gregory #Bovino led a caravan of at least a dozen agents across #Chicago suburbs including Evanston, Skokie & Niles, & Edison Park neighborhood.
Sun-Times journalists followed the caravan for at least an hour & witnessed 4 arrests—2 in Albany Park & 2 others in Edison Park & Niles.
Christopher Klim, a #US #citizen from #Poland, was seen handcuffed & later released ~2PM as he remodeled a home in the 7400 block of North Oconto Ave.
US #BorderPatrol Commander-at-large Gregory #Bovino led a caravan of at least a dozen agents across #Chicago suburbs including Evanston, Skokie & Niles, & Edison Park neighborhood.
Sun-Times journalists followed the caravan for at least an hour & witnessed 4 arrests—2 in Albany Park & 2 others in Edison Park & Niles.
Christopher Klim, a #US #citizen from #Poland, was seen handcuffed & later released ~2PM as he remodeled a home in the 7400 block of North Oconto Ave.
His co-worker, who Klim said also is a #US #citizen from #Poland, was arrested & taken away in the caravan of SUVs.
“I’m not [a] criminal. I’m just working,” Klim, 59, said shortly after he was released & the federal agents had driven away.
“I’m so stressed…I’m worried,” Klim said of his co-worker. “He’s got his car. He lives not so far from here, but I don’t know even [his] last name & I don’t have a phone number to his wife.”
#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo
About 5 neighbors stood nearby, shouting at the agents [ #FreeSpeech] who gave verbal warnings they would deploy #TearGas. They never did.
Klim & the other man had been working on the house for a couple weeks, acc/to Brendan Ek, a neighbor across the street. “It seemed a little ridiculous, honestly. Big waste of #taxpayers’ money, if you ask me,” Ek, 30, said.
#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #Gestapo
About 15 mins before that incident, #Bovino’s caravan stopped in the H Mart grocery store parking lot in Niles & detained another man who was just walking through the lot.
Friday’s arrests began around 9:30AM in the Albany Park neighborhood, when agents tackled a man to the pavement in the 3200 block of West Lawrence Ave after they accused him of assaulting one of them [no one including CST journos witnessed the alleged assault].
#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo
A crowd gathered & shouted, “Let them go,” at the agents. Agents ripped another man from his car & detained him after other community members tried to put themselves in front of him.
“It’s actually horrifying,” said a friend of one of the men detained, who did not want to be identified. Minutes earlier, the person had just seen the man standing there.
“It happens so fast. You prepare, but then you don’t know what to do,” the person said.
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