#ImmigrationCrackdown inspires uniquely #Chicago pushback that’s now a model for other cities
By SOPHIA TAREEN and CHRISTINE FERNANDO, November 16, 2025
CHICAGO (AP) — "Baltazar Enriquez starts most mornings with street patrols, leaving his home in Chicago’s #LittleVillage on foot or by car to find immigration agents that have repeatedly targeted his largely Mexican neighborhood.
"Wearing an orange whistle around his neck, the activist broadcasts his plans on Facebook.
" 'We don’t know if they’re going to come back. All we know is we’ve got to get ready,' he tells thousands of followers. 'Give us any tips if you see any suspicious cars.'
"Moments later, his phone buzzes.
"As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government. The Democratic stronghold’s response has tapped established activists and everyday residents from wealthy suburbs to working class neighborhoods.
"They say their efforts — #CommunityPatrols, #RapidResponders, #SchoolEscorts, vendor buyouts, #HonkingHorns and #BlowingWhistles — are a uniquely Chicago response that other cities President Donald #Trump has targeted for federal intervention want to model.
" 'The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is a bunch of obscenities and ‘no,’ said Anna Zolkowski Sobor, whose North Side neighborhood saw agents throw #TearGas and tackle an elderly man. 'We are all Chicagoans who deserve to be here. Leave us alone.' "
#Resistance #ResistICE #TrumpSucks #ICESucks #TerrorizingUSCitizens #ACAB #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government. The Democratic stronghold’s response has tapped established activists and everyday residents from wealthy suburbs to working class neighborhoods. They say their efforts are a uniquely Chicago response that other cities President Donald Trump has targeted for federal intervention want to model. Their tactics include community patrols, rapid responders, school escorts, vendor buyouts, honking horns and blowing whistles.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
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