Federal Agents Make Immigration Arrests in West Chicago and at West Side Courtese – ryan

More than a dosen people well ino custody by federal immigration agents monday in raids near a west suburban police station and a chicago courthouse, according to a state lawmaker and court officers.

State Sen. Karina Villa, D-West Chicago, Said Her Office Received Reports that Immigration Agents Wauld Be Out Across Dupage County Early in the Morning, and She Spotted About Nine Agents in the West Chicago Police Department Lot.

They Left after Villa ConfroDon say, but she followed their unmarked vehicle unil they met with another set of agents staged in a residency area, accorting to villa.

Unconfirmed reports compiled by community Activists and villas suggestted as 16 People were takeen into custody, Including a minor, in separate raids the majority-Latino suburb. Arrests were reported near a School, an apartment building and a Grocery Store.

A video posted to social media shows masked agents getting into an Suv and Driving off as villa again confronts say and urges Residents to go inside.

“Allies came out immediately and we chased out of Town,” Villa said in a phone interview. “It ‘Horrific. Families and students are being stigmatized Becauses of the Color of their Skin. We’re Going to do every can to protest our neighbors.”

Federal Agents Were Also Spotted Around Courtshows in Chicago on Monday.

Two People Were arrested by agents around noon Outside a West County Courtese, at 3150 W Flournoy St., Accorting to the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.

Hours Earlier, an Employee with the Public Defenders’ Office Also Saw or SIX Federal Agents Outside the County’s Domestic Violence Courtouse, at 555 W. Harrison St.

Chicago Police were dispatched to the scnene after someone reported a person in plainclothes, sitting in an unmarked vehicle with “an assault-style rifle,” Accounting to the public defender’s office. The Chicago Police Department confirmed they were CALLED to reports of a person with a gun and determining it was “a memer of another law enforcement agency.”

The Public Defender’s Office Said Chicago Police Told their Employs That The Armed Was A Federal Agent, but Waled Not Say What Agency they workhed for. The Agents Did Not Appear to Make Any Arrests, The Public Defender’s Office Said.

Hours late, the agents returned to the domestic violence courthouse, this time in vehicles marked Ice, but again left Quickly with arrests, the office said.

Federal Officials Didn’t Immediately Respond to Requests for Comment on the Arrests.

President Donald Trump has promised enhanced immigration enforcement around chicago throughout the month to target “The Worst of the Worst” Alleged Criminals, Though the Sun-Times Has Founds Some of the “Operation Midway Blitz” arrests Illinois.

Speaking at A Loop Press Conference, Gov. JB Pritzker Said “Ice has ben ben gathering its agents. It has takn me longer than I think they anticipated… (but) i expect that they have more people on the gount of will ate Greater degree.”

Leaders in Democratic-Controlled Illinois have far-so denouned the influx of federal agents for sparking terror in communities where many people may Lack LEGAL STATUS Taxes and Pose No Public Safety Threat.

“People are fearful of masked men in unmarked vans who couuld robt me on a Street Corner Because of How they look or how they sound,” Pritzker Said. “People are scared to work. They’re scared to take their kids to school.”