* I’ve seen this same sort of hot take in other places. This particular version is from Jeanne Ives’ “Breakthrough Ideas” newsletter…

[Last] week’s drama started early on Tuesday morning when ICE agents descended on a run-down apartment building in Chicago’s south shore neighborhood. They broke into apartments, rustled people out of bed, including children, held them until they could confirm citizenship status, and arrested 37 illegals, including suspects connected to the Tren de Aragua gang, who have been terrorizing the community.

The Left focused on apartments that were busted into and people detained temporarily to determine their status. Like it or not, ICE agents have broad authority to target and detain people they suspect are here illegally. This website explains in detail what they can do. For example, “The INA grants ICE agents the authority to question any person they believe to be a noncitizen about their right to be or remain in the U.S. This is a broad power that doesn’t require any specific suspicion of wrongdoing.”

* From that last link Ives herself provided…

Reflecting some of these Fourth Amendment constraints, DHS regulations provide that an immigration officer may question an individual so long as the officer “does not restrain the freedom of an individual, not under arrest, to walk away.”

The full DHS regulation is here.

* Gov. Pritzker over the weekend…

Jake Tapper: The federal agents this week carrying out this massive raid on this apartment complex in Chicago, reportedly, they used drones, helicopters, military style vehicles, a Border Patrol officer told The New York Times. And snipers rappelled down to the roof of the building during the raid from a helicopter. What more can you tell us about this?

Pritzker: Well, let me also mention that the Border Patrol shouldn’t be there either. They’re claiming that the shores of Lake Michigan are the border of the United States, and therefore they should be in Chicago. They belong on the borders, truly on the borders.

The feds claim enhanced governmental rights of searches and seizures 100 miles from a border. Most of the US population lives within that zone. But, geographically, Chicago does not…

Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located fully in the United States

Click here for a map.

The feds claim that since the Northeastern tip of Lake Michigan is within 100 miles of the Canadian border, then all cities within 100 miles of the lake are within its zone of influence. I’m told some discussions are being held about challenging the federal interpretation in court.

* A South Shore raid news coverage roundup from Isabel…

* Press Release | Governor Pritzker Directs State Agencies to Evaluate Treatment of Children During Federal Raid in South Shore: “Imagine being a child awakened in the middle of the night by a Black Hawk helicopter landing in your neighborhood. Imagine an armed stranger forcibly removing you from your bed, zip-tying your hands, separating you from your family, and detaining you in a dark van for hours. This didn’t happen in a country with an authoritarian regime – it happened here in Chicago. It happened in the United States of America – a country that should be a bastion of freedom, hope, and the rights of our people as guaranteed by the Constitution,” Governor Pritzker said. “Military-style tactics should never be used on children in a functioning democracy. As more details emerge, I am appalled by the reports of excessive use of force against children as well as the many innocent bystanders who were punished simply for residing in that building.”

* Sun-Times | Pritzker calls on state agencies to investigate feds’ treatment of children at South Shore raid: Pritzker said the two state agencies will contact families and children impacted by the raid to gather information. If they receive allegations of suspected abuse or neglect by federal agents, the governor said the state will move to hold the agents accountable, which could include “collaborating with local law enforcement as necessary.”

* ABC Chicago | ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground: “My building is shaking. So, I’m like, ‘What is that?’ Then I look out the window, it’s a Blackhawk helicopter,” said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad. […] DHS said 37 people were arrested. ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later. “They just treated us like we were nothing,” Fisher said.

* Fox Chicago | ‘ICE is not about safety’: Chicago residents, lawmakers condemn raid in South Shore: First District Congressman Jonathon Jackson, who led the tour, told reporters: “Residents were terrorized, children were thrown to the ground.” The press event took place on the same day Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D), speaking out about the raid, told CNN, “They were going after a few criminals, instead they broke windows, they broke down doors, they ransacked the place and there were people that were held, I mean elderly people and children zip-tied.”

* Sun-Times | After military-style raid on South Shore apartment, Congress members rally around residents: Ramirez and U.S. Sens.Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have requested a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office director Russell Hott to discuss oversight of the Broadview processing facility that has become a de facto detention center and the center of anti-ICE protests. Hott rescheduled the meeting, Ramirez said.

* CBS Chicago | Elected Illinois officials call for transparency into South Shore apartment raid: Rep. Delia Ramierz, among other elected officials, is calling for more oversight and transparency into what happened at the building and all actions taken by the federal agents. “As a member of the committee on Homeland Security, we are demanding oversight of Broadview. We are requesting and demanding a meeting with the Chicago field office director, Russell Hault, and we want a full investigation into what is happening across the city of Chicago and the entire state of Illinois,” she said.

* People Magazine | ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls: Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street from where the raid occurred, said she saw what seemed like hundreds of agents outside her front door. She said she witnessed agents dragging residents, including children — some naked or improperly clothed — out of the building and into U-Haul vans. Children were separated from their mothers, she said. “It was heartbreaking to watch,” Watson said. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

* Reuters | US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies: Naudelys, a 19-year-old Venezuelan woman, says she was in her apartment with her 4-year-old son and another couple with a baby when agents knocked down their door during the raid early Tuesday. Agents told them to put up their hands and pointed guns at them, she said. Naudelys, whose husband was arrested and detained by immigration authorities three months ago, said she tried to record the scene but an agent knocked away her phone. The Spanish-speaking agents told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son, and she begged him to stop, she said. […] Gil Kerlikowske, who was commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2014-2017 and a former Seattle police chief, said border agents have different training and protocols than local police and worries more aggressive tactics could erode trust. “Policing an urban environment is totally, completely different,” he said.

* AP | Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago: Agents then went door to door, woke up residents and used zip ties to restrain them, including parents and children, according to residents and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which canvassed the area. Rodrick Johnson was among the U.S. citizens briefly detained and said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties. The 67-year-old was released hours later. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one.”

* The Triibe | Feds detain dozens of immigrants in ‘massive’ South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago: On Tuesday, photos of ransacked apartments show doors kicked in and belongings tossed around in the aftermath of the raid. Initial reports of gunfire at the location turned out to be flash grenades launched by federal agents. Videos shared to social media show a significant number of FBI agents among the mix.

* Block Club | Feds Detained 4 Children Who Are US Citizens During Controversial ICE Raid: The building has long had issues, neighbors said, but agents broke open its doors, allowing others to come in and steal from tenants in the hours after the raid. On Wednesday, walls on the building’s second floor were spray-painted with “Venezuela,” but it was unclear how long the graffiti had been there. Many of the floor’s units had broken doors and appeared to be home to young children.

* Block Club | South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: ‘It Looks Like Hell’: The Army veteran, who went blind recently and asked not use his name, said the agents moved on to the next apartment after coming to his home. “I was trying to protect myself,” he said. “My nerves were shook.” By Wednesday afternoon, the building appeared largely abandoned by residents. […] The property was most recently estimated at an under $3 million market value, according to the Cook County Assessor’s Office. An online listing has it up for sale for more than $15 million as part of a “Jackson Park Portfolio” with two other South Shore buildings. The listing agent, Finley Askin, did not return a request for comment.

* CWB | Report: City knew of squalid, unsafe conditions at South Shore apartments before immigration raid: According to the [Real Deal], the building’s lender, Wells Fargo, has been pressuring its owner to “re-assert control over the building.” In a recent court filing, the bank claimed “the building is unsecured, which allows non-tenants to access the interior. There has also been increased criminal activity and shootings at the property, which is located across the street from an elementary school.”

* Tribune | ‘This could be very significant’: Federal judge in Chicago set to rule on alleged ICE violations in ‘Operation Midway Blitz’: Instead, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings said he will issue a written ruling “in the coming days.” Leaders of the National Immigrant Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the original lawsuit against Trump’s first administration in 2018, are hopeful that Cummings will extend the consent decree and help curb the tide of what they call “increasingly violent and dangerous arrests by DHS and other federal officers” in Chicago.