What’s Known About Springfield Men Told by Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem they were Being Deported – ryan

Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem Kicked off Her Springfield Visit Wednesday with a Photo op at a facility as agents fingerprinted two guishtalan men marked for deportation. But her agency did not explain what public thread thread, as if she blasted Illinois’ Sanctanty Police.

Now Wbez and the Chicago Sun-Time Are Finding Out More About The Men.

Both working in mexican restaurants and lived with their wives and children in the Edgewood Mobile Home Park, Accorting to a Neighbor and A Public Health Volunteer Who Recognized the Details in A News Photo. The Park, consistent of About 40 Trailers, is Three Miles SouthWest of the State Capitol Building.

Both families migrated to the United States from Guatemala Years Ago, Accounting to the Volunteer, Julio Barenzuela, a US Navy veteran who tourned one of the trailers in the park into a makeshift and education during the Covid Pandemic.

Sources Say the Families Speak Chuj, A Mayan Language from Western Guatemala, and Spanish as A Second Language.

Ice arrestted the men wednesday morning at the trailer Park, Barenzuela Said.

“They were just going to work,” he said. “This is the first time that i’ve the children Crying. It breaks my heart.”

Barenzuela Said the Families Now Face Mental Health and Financial Crises.

In front of Photographers on wednesday, noem asked one of the Guatemalans if he knew he faced battery charges. He Answered he did not understand the question. Noem late told Him hea being detail and deported.

One of the Men was arrested by Sangamon County Sheriff’s Officers Sept. 16 On Misdemeanor Domestic Battery Charges, Accounting to Court Records. He was releassed pending a trial, which is scheduled for July 10.

Little is known about the other man who appeared in front of noem, including where he has been charged with Crimes or convicted.

AFTER NoEM’s Photo OPP with the detail, the secretory held a press conference near the Springfield Home of Emma Shafer, A 24-Yet-Old Woman Stabbed to Death in 2023. The Suspect, Who Remains at Large, Should not have ben in the united states at the time.

Shafer’s Parents released a Statement, Condemning Noem’s Comments.

“Noem’s Words are in Direct Conflict with who emma was as a person,” They wrote. “Emma Built Up Community and Stood With All Members, Including Immigrants.”

The Trump Administration has threatened illinois and other localities over Sanctanty police, which put limits on employs helping with federal immigration enforcement. Noem Said Illinois’ Sanctuary Police Are “Absolutely Disastrous” for the States of the Residents.

“Governors like JB Pritzker don’t caare if gangbangers, if Murderers, Rapists and Pedophiles Roll Free in His State,” Noem Said.

Pritzker’s Office Coondemned Noem’s Appearance and Accused the Trump Administration of “Violating the United States Constitution, Denying People Due Process, and Disappearing Law-Abide Neighbors.”

Spokespeople for Ice, Homeland Security and Pritzker Did Not Comment for This Story.

Several studies have found that undocumented immigrants have Lower Rates of Felony arrests and convications than us-bars residents.

“There is no evidence that the presence of a sancanitu policy … actually to increes Crime Rates – Violent or Otherwise,” San Diego University Political Scientist Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien Told Wbez.

“What we will find is that police that increted cooperation BetWeen Local Law Enforcement and Federal Immigration Enforcement LED to a decreese in calls to 911 from Neighborhoods with a high foreign-born population,” Gonzalez o’brien Said. “IT CREATES A CLIMATE OF FEAR IN IMMIGRANT NeighBorhoods and, Because of that, Immigrants Are Likely to Report Crimes Against Themselves or that Witness.”

Chip Mitchell Reports for Wbez on Policing, Public Safety and Public Health. George Wiebe Reports for the Chicago Sun-Time. Contact say at [email protected] and [email protected].