Jim Daley
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Pinned
DHS still can’t or won’t say what they did with the two U.S. citizens they detained on 9/30 and called CPD to request a vehicle for.
They first sent a statement about the South Shore raid—an entirely different incident—and when I asked again they sent this deeply unserious response.
They first sent a statement about the South Shore raid—an entirely different incident—and when I asked again they sent this deeply unserious response.
UPDATE: DHS spokesperson now says “Border Patrol has no reports matching United States citizens taken into custody at 1AM on Sept 30th.”
Audio of OEMC dispatch that I obtained shows Border Patrol called CPD about two U.S. citizens they took into custody, however. What happened to those citizens?
Audio of OEMC dispatch that I obtained shows Border Patrol called CPD about two U.S. citizens they took into custody, however. What happened to those citizens?
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///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down after two months, sources tell the Tribune.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down after two months, sources tell the Tribune.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
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News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
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Bovino just posted this on X
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bovino just posted this on X
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Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
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the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
This seems significant
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
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Federal agents pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Cicero chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Federal agents pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Cicero chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed an infant today.
Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed an infant today.
Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
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Other attorneys who spoke at the presser wished to remind the public that they can visit tinyurl.com/chicagotro to report when federal immigration agents in Chicagoland potentially violate District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order against abuse of press, protestors and religious practitioners.
Rev. Abby Holcombe of the River Forest Methodist Church, another plaintiff shot with pepper balls: "I have one more message for Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, the ICE agents who shot at me and all other ICE agents and president Trump: God is always on the side of the oppressed. So which side are you on?"
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Other attorneys who spoke at the presser wished to remind the public that they can visit tinyurl.com/chicagotro to report when federal immigration agents in Chicagoland potentially violate District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order against abuse of press, protestors and religious practitioners.
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An Illinois Department of Transportation employee was stopped by ICE agents while working on a Park Ridge construction project Friday morning — and questioned about incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before being released.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "continuing to question U....
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
An Illinois Department of Transportation employee was stopped by ICE agents while working on a Park Ridge construction project Friday morning — and questioned about incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before being released.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.
DHS spokespersons consistently give petulant, amateurish, deeply unserious responses to inquiries about extremely serious matters.
After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
DHS spokespersons consistently give petulant, amateurish, deeply unserious responses to inquiries about extremely serious matters.
Can't believe this thrice-divorced weirdo is back in the news
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Can't believe this thrice-divorced weirdo is back in the news
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Broadview ICE this morning. A circle of women went into the middle of the street to exercise their free speech rights and were all arrested & zip tied by cops. @resist_and_repeat on instagram many folks here today.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Broadview ICE this morning. A circle of women went into the middle of the street to exercise their free speech rights and were all arrested & zip tied by cops. @resist_and_repeat on instagram many folks here today.
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federal agents are back in the skokie/evanston area this morning.
this video, posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago, shows federal agents driving through the williamsburg village subdivision amid construction vehicles parked along the road.
lots of residents out with whistles.
this video, posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago, shows federal agents driving through the williamsburg village subdivision amid construction vehicles parked along the road.
lots of residents out with whistles.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
federal agents are back in the skokie/evanston area this morning.
this video, posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago, shows federal agents driving through the williamsburg village subdivision amid construction vehicles parked along the road.
lots of residents out with whistles.
this video, posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago, shows federal agents driving through the williamsburg village subdivision amid construction vehicles parked along the road.
lots of residents out with whistles.
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CHICAGO! We are getting the band back together for ONE NIGHT ONLY to celebrate Sinéad with words, music, and cake. Dec 17 at the Hideout. Proceeds go to @icirr.bsky.social
Nothing Compares to Her: A Salute to Sinéad | Hideout Chicago
Nothing Compares to Her: A Salute to Sinéad The late Sinéad O’Connor was a singular talent whose soaring voice and fearless advocacy for children, the LGBTQ community, and anyone being crushed by th...
hideoutchicago.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
CHICAGO! We are getting the band back together for ONE NIGHT ONLY to celebrate Sinéad with words, music, and cake. Dec 17 at the Hideout. Proceeds go to @icirr.bsky.social
“The special prosecutor tapped to oppose an upcoming certificate of innocence petition for Kevin Jackson, a wrongfully convicted Englewood man, is the same 1990s-era assistant state’s attorney named in one of Chicago’s best known and most expensive wrongful conviction settlements.”
Over the last few months, I've been taking a closer look at one of three special prosecutors tapped by the state's attorney's office to oppose Kevin Jackson's certificate of innocence. Jackson was wrongfully convicted and spent 23 years incarcerated.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/kevi...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/kevi...
Kevin Jackson was falsely convicted, and now his innocence certificate is being opposed by a prosecutor whose past includes prosecutorial misconduct • The TRiiBE
A deeper look at Fabio Valentini, whose private practice has been tapped by Cook County for a number of post-conviction hearings.
thetriibe.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“The special prosecutor tapped to oppose an upcoming certificate of innocence petition for Kevin Jackson, a wrongfully convicted Englewood man, is the same 1990s-era assistant state’s attorney named in one of Chicago’s best known and most expensive wrongful conviction settlements.”
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DHS border patrol officers in Los Angeles assault a man, hijack his car and kidnap his baby strapped into the backseat. When confronted, the DHS position is to accuse their victim of having assaulted them—standard DHS procedure in such cases is to lie, flagrantly.
Border patrol arrested LA dad and drove off with his baby. DHS accused him of assault
The arrest follows a series of immigration operations targeting parents and families in front of their children
www.independent.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
DHS border patrol officers in Los Angeles assault a man, hijack his car and kidnap his baby strapped into the backseat. When confronted, the DHS position is to accuse their victim of having assaulted them—standard DHS procedure in such cases is to lie, flagrantly.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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“He has also been asking, ‘If daddy gets deported what will we do?’”
Evanston parents say Hispanic voices have been “pushed aside” during the school closure process — all as federal immigration crackdowns sow fear. My latest @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social:
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/05/w...
Evanston parents say Hispanic voices have been “pushed aside” during the school closure process — all as federal immigration crackdowns sow fear. My latest @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social:
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/05/w...
Willard two-way immersion families say Hispanic voices have been ‘pushed aside’ in school closure process - Evanston RoundTable
Editor’s note: The names Ramona and Beth in this story have been changed to protect the speakers' identities. Families of two-way Spanish/English
evanstonroundtable.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“He has also been asking, ‘If daddy gets deported what will we do?’”
Evanston parents say Hispanic voices have been “pushed aside” during the school closure process — all as federal immigration crackdowns sow fear. My latest @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social:
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/05/w...
Evanston parents say Hispanic voices have been “pushed aside” during the school closure process — all as federal immigration crackdowns sow fear. My latest @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social:
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/05/w...
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Via @alexhairysun.bsky.social:
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
FBI investigating recent incident involving feds in Evanston, blocks city from releasing records - Evanston RoundTable
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the car crash and subsequent confrontation between federal immigration agents and
evanstonroundtable.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Via @alexhairysun.bsky.social:
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
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If you'd like to know what counts as a violation of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order against federal immigration agents' violent behavior in Chicagoland (you can report alleged violations at tinyurl.com/chicagotro), the full written version of the order can be found here:
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you'd like to know what counts as a violation of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order against federal immigration agents' violent behavior in Chicagoland (you can report alleged violations at tinyurl.com/chicagotro), the full written version of the order can be found here:
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Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict:
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict:
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”