In Facebook groups and on Signal chats, tens of thousands of residents regularly crowdsource information on immigration agents’ last-known locations, neighborhoods being targeted that day and — importantly — the license plates, makes and models of the rental cars used by agents, which can change daily. Hours after the confrontation in the Lakeview neighborhood, dozens of parents stood guard outside a school in Bucktown, another North Side neighborhood favored by families and young professionals, after hearing ICE and border patrol officers were in the area. On a recent Saturday morning, Brian Kolp, an attorney and former prosecutor, ran out of the house in his pajamas when word spread throughout the Old Irving Park neighborhood that immigration agents in balaclavas had grabbed a worker and a protester and shoved them into their car.
Author: Reuters
Published at: 2025-11-02 23:16:41
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