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A look back at last week’s extraordinary federal raid
Monday, Oct 6, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller * I’ve seen this same sort of hot take in other places. This particular version is from Jeanne Ives’ “Breakthrough Ideas” newsletter…
* From that last link Ives herself provided…
The full DHS regulation is here. * Gov. Pritzker over the weekend…
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…
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…
* 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.
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- low level - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 11:44 am:
Jeannie Ives was wrong again. Go figure. The Pope himself spoke out about the ICE raids and detentions, calling them inhumane.
The Pope is right, Ives is wrong.
- Linus - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 11:44 am:
Cue up a “Gulf of Michigan” pronouncement any moment now to redefine our borders
- 47th Ward - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 11:50 am:
See you in church Jeanne.
- Telly - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 11:51 am:
It will take three of four years to wind through the courts, but the Feds will be making millions in payouts to settle wrongful arrest cases.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 11:57 am:
===the Feds will be making millions in payouts to settle wrongful arrest cases===
They really are just blowing money left and right. That’s what happens when you run the government like the Trump Organization.
- watchful eye - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:20 pm:
Jeanne who?
- Harrison - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:25 pm:
Of the 37 arrested at the South Shore raid who was unlawfully charged by Federal agents?
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:27 pm:
Harrison, you’ve missed the entire point.
- Demoralized - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:32 pm:
@Harrison
You should be asking how many were ripped out of bed and detained and NOT charged. You’re defending the indefensible.
- Jerry - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:35 pm:
Lake Michigan is near the Canadian border? Are they really this stupid?
- short stuff are beans tall stuff is corn - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:37 pm:
Rich
You did note the 10 cars that blocked and rammed ICE vehicles. Chicago PD refused to respond per the Chief of Patrol. You did hear about that.
- Demoralized - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:38 pm:
You do know not to believe everything you read on Facebook right?
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:40 pm:
===You did note the 10 cars that blocked and rammed ICE vehicles===
What does that have to do with the South Shore raid?
- Harrison - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:42 pm:
Exactly how should a raid that results in 37 arrests on what was allegedly a hotbed of criminal activity have been handled to your satisfaction?
Govern what happened over the weekend the fact no shots were fired was a miracle.
so no What are the cases of wrongful arrests who will be getting millions of dollars in settlements in the future?
Lets try it be factual and not hyperbolic
Being detained temporarily and being charged with a crime are very different
- Jerry - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:43 pm:
I’m sure the Tren de Aragua boats are coming across the Erie Canal thru the Great Lakes and dropping off the gang members in the playpen by Lake Point Towers. (sarcasm intentional).
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:44 pm:
===Being detained temporarily===
That is far too benign of an explanation.
- levivoted4judy - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:49 pm:
I get that ICE is used to working in a clandestine manner and that they don’t do well in the light. But I hope that a retired ICE agent or down the roadd when one of the agents involved in this writes the inevitable book on this situation they can clarify if this is how ICE normally treats people in raids or how many degrees off this is.
- low level - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:55 pm:
== Lets try it be factual and not hyperbolic==
== Govern what happened over the weekend the fact no shots were fired was a miracle.==
There is someone being hyperbolic and its not Rich Miller.
- ArchPundit - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:58 pm:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
There is no exception to breaking into a US Citizens home because they might live near someone you suspect of not having legal status. It’s unconstitutional and it’s wrong.
- Trinity - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:01 pm:
===You did note the 10 cars that blocked and rammed ICE vehicles===
Lies, lies & more lies. The video is out homie. It shows a Black SUV behind an unmarked White pickup truck with Cosplaying police lights in the back window. Video clearing shows everyone waiting for a Semi to pass in a one lane construction area. It passes guy doesn’t move She pushes on the gas to move him. Another UNMARKED SUV goes behind her she backs up and also pushes them then drives. The driver was indeed a woman.
If I were a hispanic woman sandwich between two unmarked cars full of White men & guns who are not verified federal officials, I too would drive if my life depended on it.
Must be nice to walk around the world and not worry if you will be shot, assaulted or killed for the color of your skin or your sex.
- short stuff are beans tall stuff is corn - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:12 pm:
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 12:40 pm:
===You did note the 10 cars that blocked and rammed ICE vehicles===
What does that have to do with the South Shore raid?
Rich its all part of the same event. You did note respond to the 2nd part. Where CPD was ordered not to respond to a someone needing help. Is that ok with you?
- Harrison - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:15 pm:
That’s not the right video, that is another incident that happened over the weekend
CWB has offered a reward for the video of the two people in federal custody but so far no one has found one
- 47th Ward - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:20 pm:
Here is a report from the Economist. Worth a read.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/06/what-a-chicago-immigration-raid-says-about-trumpism
- Demoralized - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:21 pm:
==Is that ok with you?==
Again, try not to believe everything you read on Facebook. Sheesh.
- Demoralized - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:24 pm:
@Harrison
You just don’t get it do you? You’re truly ok with the federal government breaking down the doors of every single unit in an apartment building, ripping people out of their beds and detaining them and asking questions later? What is wrong with you? That is the kind of actions that happen in countries run by dictators. I for the life of me cannot understand why you and those like you are so willing to be ok with what is going on. It saddens me that this is the type of country you want the US to be.
- low level - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:31 pm:
ICE needed CPD to bail them out? I thought these guys were tough like “tough guy” Pete Hegseth.
- Friendly Bob Adams - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 1:38 pm:
Nice little constitution we used to have back in the day. It lasted a couple hundred years so we can be proud of that.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:04 pm:
One of the residents who remains is Alicia Brooks, a 33-year-old American citizen. By her account, at around 1am on the night of the raid she heard a helicopter right outside her window on the fifth floor. “I started to get my key, and I was grabbed,” she says. “I was zip-tied in front of me and escorted outside the building.” Dozens of men in military-style uniforms carrying assault rifles evacuated the complex “like it was on fire”, she says. They lined up the inhabitants outside, zip-tying the hands of the adults, and put them on buses. By law, to question somebody, immigration officers must have reason to think they could be an illegal immigrant. To arrest somebody, they need probable cause. Ms Brooks, who is black, with an American accent, says she repeatedly asked officers why she was being arrested, and pointed out her citizenship. Nobody asked her any questions. When she continued to object to her arrest, an officer knocked her to the ground, removed the zip-ties and replaced them with handcuffs, locked as tightly as they would go. By the time she was released, together with several other citizens, she says the sun was coming up.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/06/what-a-chicago-immigration-raid-says-about-trumpism
- Loop Lady - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:05 pm:
This is one way the SS rounded up Jews and sent them to the concentration camps…
- Stephanie Kollmann - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:08 pm:
On the raid: worse in several respects than when CPD did violated Anjanette Young’s security in her own home and it was very clearly and obviously wrong, then
- Stephanie Kollmann - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:15 pm:
On the 100-mile border zone definition, I’m tempted to type a long screed in allcaps. I’ll stick to one word: FINALLY
It is specifically listed as 100 miles from an “external boundary” - i.e., not a port of entry or other definition.
What’s an external boundary?
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§ 287.1 Definitions.
(a)
(1) External boundary. The term external boundary, as used in section 287(a)(3) of the Act, means the land boundaries and the territorial sea of the United States extending 12 nautical miles from the baselines of the United States determined in accordance with international law.
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Lake Michigan is “internal waters,” not a “territorial sea.”
What is happening is lawless in any event and needs to be treated as such. But Border Patrol’s interpretation of expanded authorities in IL truly does need to be challenged.
- Trinity - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:17 pm:
=====Rich its all part of the same event. You did note respond to the 2nd part. Where CPD was ordered not to respond to a someone needing help. Is that ok with you?====
Wow! It is sad people are so brainwashed they are trying to change actual time. He most definitely is from the burbs. Bud, two different days, two different neighborhoods. One Black, one Latino. Even USCIS has horrific video bragging about each event.
Also Body cam footage & CBS proved by video ICE has been making false 911 calls in Bridgeview. Pretty sure they checked the cams and made decisions.
So WHAT DO YOU CARE?? ICE is not throwing chemicals and inciting rioting in your neighborhoods. Funny how they are literally NO ONE ELSE but where Latinos are at? I really don’t want to hear from Steve in Naperville or the Northside.
- Stephanie Kollmann - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:21 pm:
On the state investigating federal actions for potential state law violations: FINALLY
It shouldn’t be limited to children, but then I guess DCFS and Human Services are a lot less conflicted than ISP, re: joint task forces and operations with Homeland Security, etc.
- 47th Ward - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:44 pm:
===But Border Patrol’s interpretation of expanded authorities in IL truly does need to be challenged.===
Agreed. But now is the time to make a fortune running bootleg maple syrup into Michigan from Ontario. Nobody is watching the border. They’re watching the people strolling on the River Walk.
- ArchPundit - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:49 pm:
===Agreed. But now is the time to make a fortune running bootleg maple syrup into Michigan from Ontario.
A couple tribes out west from both sides of the border are creating a sort of free trade zone on their tribal lands. No idea what is legal in tribal law, but I’m amused at the thought of it.
- dbs - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 2:52 pm:
Each Apt. is a separate dwelling unit, as such they needed either a warrant to enter each unit or probable cause for each separate unit. Why should your apartment be raided b/c a neighboring unit is occupied by an alleged criminal. Easy to accept a violation of folks rights to be safe from unreasonable search and seizure, until it happens to you or someone you care about.
- BE - Monday, Oct 6, 25 @ 3:05 pm:
Also, amazing how they determined how there was or wasn’t anyone they needed to take, based on whether they could get the door down easily enough, since a guy whose door they couldn’t get down was left alone.