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Laura Rodríguez Presa
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Bilingual Journalist at Chicago Tribune focused on immigration and Latinos/ Adj professor at DePaul University/ Maktub/ 1 John 4:16/ RTs ≠ endorsements /larodriguez@chicagotribune.com
Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.

Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.

Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very disturbing video has emerged from today’s ICE/CBP operations in Avondale.

An officer pushes a woman to the ground, prompting bystanders to react angrily and throw what appears to be a rock at a moving unmarked vehicle.

This seems to be the new normal in Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Immigraton agents today spotted in Avondale, Irving Park, Belmont Craigin.

Again, tear gassing residents that gather to demand they leave, and follow them to alert neighbors they’re in the area.

Developing.
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Video shows top Border Patrol agent Gregory Bovino tossing a canister at protesters in Little Village.

Attorneys in a federal lawsuit say he violated a court order barring agents from using tear gas & other ‘riot control weapons’ on protesters & journalists

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/23/f...
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Here’s one more from Maywood.
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Parking lot of Menards
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Multiple community reports indicate that ICE and Border Patrol agents in unmarked vehicles are targeting construction workers, landscapers, and roofers today in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Here are a few videos/ images shared.
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A young man confronts ICE agents outside his mechanic shop near the Swap-O-Rama.

“We’re protecting all the U.S citizens,” they tell him.

“I don’t want your protection,” he responds.
October 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A scene from today’s ICE operations in Chicago: Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising

Read the full story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/i...
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Here’s the video that Andrew Denton took while he was getting lunch.

Denton said that agents had been stopped there for less than a minute and that aside from people yelling at them, “no one was attacking the agents.”

“There was no reason for them to that,” he said.
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The group aimed to conduct an unannounced visit to check on the conditions of the detainees held there. 

A masked agent spoke to them through the gates wearing a face mask, black shades and a White Sox hat. He refused to identify himself to members of U.S Congress.
June 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM