NonilexOct 2, 2025

Massive #immigration raid on #Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

#DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid.

#Trump #law #US #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Chicago Sun-Times
Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

#Armed federal agents in #military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, #women & #children from their apartments, some of them #naked, residents & witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the 5-story building, & #UScitizens were among those detained for hours.

#Trump #law #US #immigration #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2

Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

When he got home from work, Dan Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics & furniture missing, & all of his clothes & shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings & hadn’t received answers from #Chicago #police [probably because they had nothing to do with it].

“I’m pissed off,” Jones said. “I feel defeated because the authorities aren’t doing anything.”

#Trump #law #immigration #MilitaryState #CivilRights #DueProcess #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

On Wednesday, toys, shoes & food were still in piles in the building’s hallways. Property managers were seen throwing mattresses & broken doors into dumpsters.

#DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid. DHS said some of those arrested “are believed to be involved in drug trafficking & distribution, weapons crimes & #immigration violators.” [sure, whatever]

#Trump #law #MilitaryState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

The feds also claimed the South Shore neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but #DHS gave NO EVIDENCE to support the assertion, & authorities did not confirm that any of the people arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang.

#Trump #law #US #immigration #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2

Show threadNonilex

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the raid. A #US #citizen, he said agents broke through his door & dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left #TiedUp outside the building for nearly 3 hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, & they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a #warrant, & I asked for a #lawyer. They never brought one.”

Oct 2, 2025 at 2:30pmWeb
Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

In the South Shore raid, neighbors said federal agents used #flashbang #grenades to burst through the building & several #drones & helicopters were deployed.

Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street, said it “looked like hundreds” of agents were outside her front door.
Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including #kids, out of the
building without any clothes on & into U-Haul vans. Kids were #separated from their mothers, she said.

#Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation

Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing #kids coming out buck #naked & taken from their #mothers, it was horrible.”

Watson said she went into the building to help one of the residents & was shocked by what she saw.

“Stuff was everywhere,” said Watson. “You could see people’s #BirthCertificates, & papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

#Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #Gestapo

Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

Jones, who lives on the 4th floor, said most of his neighbors were #Venezuelan & often took turns cleaning the hallway because the property owners did little to maintain it.

“They were cool people,” Jones said as he looked into his next door neighbor’s unit. “They didn’t speak a lick of English, but we used translator apps to talk to each other.”

Jones wondered what would happen to his neighbor’s young #children.

#Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #DueProcess #tyranny

Show threadNonilexOct 2, 2025

Brandon Lee, spox for the #Illinois Coalition for #Immigrant & #Refugee Rights, said the group was working to identify those taken in the raid.
“It was a #violent show of force in the middle of the night,” Lee said. “Taking #families out of an apartment building in a residential neighborhood like that is harmful, is #traumatic, & that is not something that people can easily recover from, whether they themselves were taken or whether they witnessed it.”

#Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation

Show threadNonilexOct 3, 2025

So glad this made national news

“Dozens of federal agents raiding an entire apartment building with kids in it just to see what they can find. It’s the most egregious abuse of our basic rights as Americans I've seen in a long time, maybe in my lifetime,” says Chris Hayes.

#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXOWAhFz0A

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube
Show threadNonilexOct 4, 2025

Reuters has picked up the report

#Trump #BorderPatrol agents deployed to #Chicago led late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops & breaking down doors in an operation authorities *said* targeted *gang members* but which [brutally] swept up #US #citizens & #families.

#law #immigration #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-border-patrol-raid-sweeps-citizens-families-chicago-crackdown-intensifies-2025-10-04/

Show threadNonilexOct 4, 2025

Naudelys, a 19-yr-old #Venezuelan woman, says she was in her apartment with her 4-year-old son & another couple with a baby when agents knocked down their door during the raid early Tuesday. Agents told them to put up their hands & pointed #guns at them.

Naudelys, whose husband was arrested & detained by #immigration authorities 3 months ago, said she tried to record the scene but an agent knocked away her phone.

#Trump #law #Chicago #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #Gestapo

Show threadNonilexOct 4, 2025

The Spanish-speaking agents told them to go back to their country & made a #sexualized remark about #Venezuelan #women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son, & she begged him to stop, she said.

"My son was traumatized," said Naudelys, who requested her last name be withheld.

She said authorities alleged her friend's partner is a member of the gang Tren de Aragua, something she disputes.

#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #SexualHarassment

Show threadNonilexOct 4, 2025

A #DHS spox confirmed the operation….

The spox declined to say whether agents had #warrants to forcibly enter homes….

4 #US #citizen #children were taken from their parents during the raid because the parents lacked legal status, DHS said, alleging that one of the parents was a Tren de Aragua member.

#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

Show threadNonilexOct 4, 2025

Cassandra Murray, 55, a resident, said she heard loud blasts as the raids occurred.

She said her #Venezuelan neighbors arrived about two years ago. At the time, thousands of Venezuelans who had recently crossed the US-Mexico border were being bused to #Chicago & other blue cities by the state of #Texas.

“They never made us feel unsafe,” said Murray. “They needed somewhere to live, too."

#Trump #law #immigration #DueProcess #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #WhiteSupremacy

Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

#JBPritzker calls on state agencies to investigate feds’ treatment of #children at South Shore raid

The governor said that 2 state agencies will contact #families & children impacted by the raid to gather more information & hold #FederalAgents accountable if allegations of #abuse or #neglect emerge.

#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/03/pritzker-call-state-agencies-investigate-feds-treatment-of-children-at-south-shore-raid

Pritzker calls on state agencies to investigate feds’ treatment of children at South Shore raid

The governor said Friday that two state agencies will contact families and children impacted by the raid to gather more information and hold federal agents accountable if allegations of abuse or neglect emerge.

Chicago Sun-Times
Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

Gov #JBPritzker is directing the state’s Dept of Child & Family Services & the Dept of Human Services to evaluate how #children were treated during an aggressive #immigration raid on a South Shore apartment building this week….

#DHS said federal agents with #BorderPatrol, the #FBI, & the #ATF arrested at least 37 people in the raid, making it one of the largest operations executed since the start of “Operation Midway Blitz” on Sept 8.

#Trump #law #Chicago #FamilySeparation #PoliceBrutality

Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

“#Military-style tactics should never be used on #children in a functioning #democracy,” said the governor in the statement. “As more details emerge, I am appalled by the reports of excessive use of force against children as well as the many innocent bystanders who were punished simply for residing in that building.”

#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

#JBPritzker said the 2 state agencies will contact #families & children impacted by the raid to gather information. If they receive allegations of suspected abuse or neglect by #FederalAgents, the governor said the state will move to hold the agents accountable, which could include “collaborating with local law enforcement as necessary.”

#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

“Imagine being a child awakened in the middle of the night by a Black Hawk helicopter landing in your neighborhood. Imagine an armed stranger forcibly removing you from your bed, zip-tying your hands, separating you from your family, & detaining you in a dark van for hours. This didn’t happen in a country with an authoritarian regime — it happened here in #Chicago,” #JBPritzker said in the statement.

#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation

Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025
#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker condemned the #immigration *enforcement* [terrorism] in #Chicago, saying the #Trump admin was not pursuing criminals but “just picking up people who are #brown & #Black, & then checking their credentials”[if they bother]. Pritzker, who previously announced that Trump was sending 300 #NationalGuard #troops to the city, added the federal agents “are the ones that are making it a war zone.”
#law #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #WhiteSupremacy
Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker blasted recent federal #immigration enforcement efforts in #Chicago on Sunday, & dismissed #DHS Secy [& dog killer] #KristiNoem’s assertions that the city was a “war zone”while blaming federal agents for escalating conflict.

“The secretary doesn’t know what she’s talking about,”Pritzker said in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,”adding that Chicagoans were “booing her on the street.”

#Trump #law #MilitaryState #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/pritzker-chicago-immigration.html?smid=url-share

Pritzker Says Federal Agents Are Trying to Make Chicago a ‘War Zone’

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said he had ordered state agencies to investigate a raid on a Chicago apartment building where there had been reports of “nearly naked” children zip-tied by federal officers.

The New York Times
Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

#JBPritzker singled out a late-night #BorderPatrol raid last week at an apartment building on #Chicago’s South Side, when video taken by bystanders showed residents — some #naked, including #women & #children — of the building restrained with zip ties.

#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

Federal agents were “just picking up people who are #brown & #Black & then checking their credentials,” #JBPritzker said. He added: “They are the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of #Chicago if they’re not going to focus on the ‘worst of the worst’, which is what the president said they were going to do.”

#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

Show threadNonilexOct 5, 2025

#JBPritzker suggested that the #Trump admin, which planned to send 300 #NationalGuard troops to #Chicago, is intentionally heightening tensions. The administration wants to “create the war zone so they can send in even more troops,” he said.

#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

Show threadEwbie DooOct 5, 2025

@Nonilex

Yes it did happen in a country with an authoritarian regime.

I wish this wasn't the reality, but in the absence of an effective supreme court democracy is a charade.

Show threadjastityOct 5, 2025
@Nonilex
It did happen in a country with an authoritarian regime.
Show threadLongspeakOct 5, 2025

@Nonilex "This didn’t happen in a country with an authoritarian regime — it happened here."

So it DID happen in a country with an authoritarian regime.

Show threadKarl Heinz HäsliprinzOct 5, 2025
@Nonilex ... Chicago is in a country with an authoritarian regime.
Show thread#ValueCreation4AllOct 5, 2025

@Nonilex

This has happened in a country with an authoritarian regime.

Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Oct 5, 2025
@Nonilex So it DID happen in a country with an authoritarian regime. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤Oct 5, 2025
@Nonilex
Except that as soon as #convictedFelon #sexOffender #DonaldTrump became #POTUS, #USA DID become an authoritarian regime. It was completely predicted and expected by all those who didn't vote for him.
Show threadAlexan VorritoldOct 5, 2025
@Nonilex well actually you're now in a n authoritarian regime...
Show threadDaNk_MaNE#176Oct 5, 2025

@Nonilex

You won't need to imagine for long if we continue to let Trump trample all over the constitution.

Show threadiperOct 14, 2025
@Nonilex What type of mission would need to be accomplished in order to award them an authoritarian medal?
Show threadPirjaPaaOct 5, 2025

@Nonilex

#ICEtapo
#TrumpDictator
#FascismintheWhiteHouse

Show threadEarthMommaOct 4, 2025

@Nonilex

Trump terrorist goon squad

It is now unsafe to go to bed at night and expect a peaceful night of rest.

Show threadSaanichGuy 🇨🇦🇨🇦Oct 4, 2025

@Nonilex #secretpolice
#dipueprocess

Are there any legal principles allowed in the US?

The constitution doesn’t seem to apply. Masked police kidnapping unnamed individuals and no one cares?
The US isn’t safe

#epsteinfiles

Show threadKim Possible Oct 3, 2025
@Nonilex I hope everyone is outraged.
Show threadBillOct 4, 2025

@Nonilex

Stop and frisk at a whole new level!

Show threadcobaltOct 4, 2025
@Nonilex Apparently Americans were ok with these tactics and violence in Gaza by IDF. So many of the eager men who work for ICE, DHS, or other law enforcement do believe it’s ok for violent tactics if the right terrorist is cited as possibly present, the reason for a violent raid and taking out Americans, lawful residents and children.
Show thread0ptimistOct 5, 2025

@Nonilex

I'm eager to see when the first shots will be fired.

Show threadFriekeOct 5, 2025
@0ptimist already has. The single father who was shot after he dropped of his children at daycare and was halted by two masked non uniformed men. He died.
@Nonilex
Show thread0ptimistOct 5, 2025
@Frieke72 @Nonilex
Shit 😔
Show threadterag1eOct 2, 2025
@Nonilex I never want to hear another damn word about pre-dawn raids by the FBI again!
Show threadBarbara MonacoOct 2, 2025
@Nonilex I am sure that the children who were put out into the streets naked will never forget.
Show threadIvey Janette McClellandOct 3, 2025
@Barbramon1 @Nonilex And THEY'LL be deported. Or sent to white families through bogus adoptions.
Show threadBarbara MonacoOct 3, 2025
@IveyJanette @Nonilex It is horrible beyond belief.
Show threadRowinSpeezOct 5, 2025
@Nonilex absolutely insane and horrifying, Jesus
Show threadPedestrianError  Oct 2, 2025
@Nonilex If local police really want to serve & protect their residents, they need to use all their fancy spyware and the fact that the Trump administration leaks like a sieve because they all using insecure chat apps to communicate to find out where these attacks are planned and surround the buildings with local police, other city staff and their equipment. Some of these chuds are too lazy to walk a block if the street's blocked with trash trucks so they could be deterred.
Show threadIvey Janette McClellandOct 3, 2025
@PedestrianError @Nonilex Most law enforcement officers are MAGA and white. They won't do shit.
Show threadFal61mav70Oct 2, 2025
@Nonilex Thank the Trumpies, Southern Baptist and the heritage foundation.
Show threadIvey Janette McClellandOct 3, 2025
@Fal61mav70 @Nonilex And Fox News.
Show threadgrechawOct 2, 2025
@Nonilex so when it comes time to sue, who is the defendant?
Show threadIvey Janette McClellandOct 3, 2025
@grechaw @Nonilex Trump.
Show threadgrechawOct 3, 2025
@IveyJanette @Nonilex They already gave him carte blanche modulo congress. Can we hold subordinates to the constitution? For now I would think so. The pardon x-change would be their cover. All so gross.