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* WTTW…
A man was detained outside a Chicago charter school Wednesday morning, apparently by agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, according to charter officials.
In a letter to families Wednesday, officials with the Acero charter school network said the individual was taken into custody by ICE agents.
An ICE spokesperson on Thursday confirmed its agents arrested 37-year-old Francisco Andrade-Berrera — whom they identified as a citizen of Mexico — without incident. ICE in its statement claimed Andrade-Berrera is “a known member of a violent street gang with criminal convictions for drug trafficking, gang loitering, and damage to property,” whom they said was previously “removed from the U.S. to his home country in 2005 and 2013.”
* But when it comes to providing records of all ICE arrests in Illinois and Chicago, journalists get the cold shoulder. Block Club Chicago…
Over the last five weeks, Block Club submitted more than a dozen inquiries and records requests to ICE seeking basic information about the enforcement actions during the early days of Trump’s new administration.
The agency has not answered any of Block Club’s questions directly. It has also failed to produce even a summary of people it has rounded up or the charges they’ve faced.
On two occasions, ICE public affairs officials responded with promises to follow up later with information. They never did.
Another time, an ICE official emailed a written statement that didn’t answer any questions and included no information about the January arrests. Block Club’s follow-up questions were ignored.
* The Sun-Times in January…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released little information about the people who were detained or why they were sought. Nationwide, ICE said 956 arrests were made Sunday. The Trump administration says it “removed” 7,300 people in its first week, “including hundreds of convicted criminals.” ICE averaged 311 daily national arrests through Sept. 30.
Bloomberg News reported that 260 people were targeted in the Chicago area on Sunday, although just seven had criminal arrest warrants.
* Last month, the Tribune was able to piece together where some immigration detainees were being held…
[T]hough, precise information about who was swept up and why remains elusive, as federal officials have declined to release detailed information about raids in Chicago. And even though national data from the first few weeks of the Trump administration have begun to trickle in, an independent group that compiles the figures said in a news release Wednesday that its analysts found inconsistencies.
In a system where people can be detained with little public information available, rosters for out-of-state jails that hold many Chicago-area detainees offer one of the only glimpses of people taken into custody amid the heightened fear and uncertainty of the past several weeks.
Though they do not represent a complete picture, the jail logs, obtained by the Tribune via public records requests, present a rare, if narrow, window into a byzantine and opaque immigration system, where people can be detained and not go before a judge for weeks, or even months. In contrast, in Illinois’ criminal justice system, arrestees must go before a judge within 48 hours and police must make arrest reports with identifying information available within 72 hours. […]
Of the nearly 200 detainee names reviewed by the Tribune, about half could not be located with confidence in national databases or local public record searches. Some appeared linked to other states in the Midwest or across the country.
* More…
* Axios | DHS registration order affects 400,000 Illinoisans: Last week, the Trump administration ordered all undocumented people in the U.S. to register with the Department of Homeland Security or face criminal penalties. Why it matters: Illinois is home to an estimated 400,000 unauthorized immigrants whose presence here constitutes a civil, not criminal, violation. This order may force them to choose between criminal charges for not registering or registration followed by deportation. […] ICE officials have, so far, failed to show how many individuals they apprehended in Illinois during January raids had criminal records.
* NPR | ICE is making more arrests, but critics say some claims don’t add up: ICE made a total of more than 113,000 arrests last year. The vast majority were “custodial” arrests, meaning the target was already in the custody of state or local officials. A far smaller number of the arrests that ICE makes are considered “at large.” But Noem’s statement doesn’t make any of that clear. It also doesn’t specify how many of the 20,000 arrests ICE made in February were considered “at large” arrests and how many were not, leaving immigration experts frustrated.
posted by Isabel Miller
Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 11:48 am
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Comment by @misterjayem Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 11:56 am
Well has anyone asked Dr. Phil? /s
Comment by Henry Francis Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 12:09 pm
A lot of undocumented immigrants are working as Contractors and their employer is scamming the tax system. The US needs balanced budgets and a secure border which is apparently an unpopular opinion. This international trade is a tax dodge too. A lot of containers full of goods are sold to insurance logistics companies in Panama using transfer pricing and trapping the profits overseas. Just printing money is a cruel tax on our working people.
Comment by Jack in Chatham Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 12:18 pm
Knowledge is power. MAGA likes the people to be ignorant. Easier to sell them the outrageous lies.
Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 12:33 pm
== This international trade is a tax dodge too. A lot of containers full of goods are sold to insurance logistics companies in Panama using transfer pricing and trapping the profits overseas. ==
You might want to talk to some of those bean farmers in your neck of the woods about how they feel about losing a significant market and the price of potash fertilizer, about to go up 25%.
Ask Google about “Containers sold to insurance logistics companies Panama” and see the answer their AI gives you. It’s something; it’s nothing about a tax dodge, but quite the word salad. The AI eqivilant of “Libya is a land of contrasts”
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 12:41 pm
=and their employer is scamming the tax system.=
Maybe we should investigate some of those employers who you claim are scamming us. Don’t you think?
Who was it that recently announced they were firing thousands of IRS employees? Hint: not joe biden.
Quite the self own.
Comment by JS Mill Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 12:51 pm
“A lot of undocumented immigrants are working as Contractors and their employer is scamming the tax system.”
I agree that the IRS needs to come down hard on small business owners who cheat the tax system.
Comment by Larry Bowa Jr. Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 1:21 pm
I’ve always felt that the best way to actually stop illegal immigration is to throw employers in jail or hit them with ouchable fines. Of course, that will be as popular as prohibition. We corrected the error of prohibition through further legislative action. We could do the same with this one, except one party doesn’t want a solution
Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 1:55 pm
How could totally real government transparency advocate Elon Musk allow this to happen? /s
Comment by Three Dimensional Checkers Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 3:08 pm
mister jay- du hast recht, mein freund
Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 3:48 pm
===A lot of undocumented immigrants are working as Contractors and their employer is scamming the tax system.
You create an underground economy by not fixing the immigration system to have pathways to work and/or residency and shockingly I guess people evade the law. A surprising number of undocumented workers pay Social Security taxes that they will never receive benefits for.
We have ways to reduce the hiring of undocumented workers and somehow we keep not implementing at the wishes of industries that employ them.
Comment by ArchPundit Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 4:23 pm
This is especially problematic as you cannot file a habeas petition if you don’t know who they have in custody.And if they have incorrectly arrested someone, as happens, there’s no recourse without a habeas petition.
Comment by ArchPundit Tuesday, Mar 4, 25 @ 4:25 pm
Ah, yes, the threat of ‘register so we can track you and we may be slightly nicer to you as we kidnap you. If you don’t register, you ‘deserve’ whatever we do to you.’
Comment by BE Wednesday, Mar 5, 25 @ 9:02 am