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News Nation: Feds use tear gas in Chicago neighborhood during fracas

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At least three people were taken into custody after a confrontation between residents and federal agents on Chicago’s Northwest Side Saturday morning.

Witnesses told WGN-TV they were shaken by what happened and are seeking answers about why federal agents approached a landscaper working in the neighborhood.

Brian Kolp, who lives nearby, said he was sitting on his couch with a cup of coffee when he heard loud noises outside. When he looked out the window, he saw agents arresting someone on his front lawn.‘Angels’ step in after federal agents use tear gas near Chicago school 

“I think I heard one of the whistles, that’s what caught my attention, and then they tackled him right in my front yard,” Kolp said.

The incident took place in the Old Irving Park neighborhood, near Kildare and Waveland. Video from the scene shows neighbors confronting the agents as tear gas fills the air and several people are pinned to the ground.

“They ended up taking at least two other people into custody, including my 70-year-old-ish neighbor who lives in that house there,” Kolp said. “He was just coming home from a run. They took him to the ground and ended up taking him away.”

Feds use tear gas in Chicago neighborhood during fracas

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Charlotte Observer: ‘Come Out Here’: Border Patrol Chief Challenges Democrat

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Chief Border Patrol Agent Greg Bovino has challenged Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) to witness firsthand the violence targeting federal immigration officers, following Goldman’s televised dismissal of a reported surge in such incidents. Tensions have intensified between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and activists, with ongoing protests in Portland and Chicago prompting heightened federal responses, including the deployment of 100 National Guard members to an ICE facility in suburban Chicago, as confirmed by Bovino.

Bovino referenced a $12,000 bounty on his life, emphasizing the dangers faced by ICE and Border Patrol personnel daily.

‘Come Out Here’: Border Patrol Chief Challenges Democrat

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Bovino should look in the mirror and ask himself why he’s such a prick!

Nobody likes me,

Everybody hates me,

Think I’ll go eat worms!

Vox.com: What a pastor saw ICE do to protesters outside Chicago

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Officers shot his friend and fellow pastor with a pepper bullet. He kept going back to protest.

A viral photo of an ICE agent at the site pepper spraying a pastor in the face has come to exemplify the aggressive and violent tactics federal officers are using to corral the demonstrations.

The Rev. Quincy Worthington was there the night his friend, the Rev. David Black, was shot in the back of the head with a pepper bullet and pepper-sprayed in the face, and has returned every weekend since. He’s seen ICE agents hit protesters with batons, shoot pepper balls and rubber bullets, and deploy flash-bangs into the crowd. Worthington says his faith is what keeps him going back after some of the scariest nights of his life.

What a pastor saw ICE do to protesters outside Chicago
Officers shot his friend and fellow pastor with a pepper bullet. He kept going back to protest.

https://www.vox.com/policy/465969/ice-protests-chicago-broadview-pastor-pepper-spray

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Newsweek: Donald Trump suffers another blow in National Guard deployment

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The Trump administration suffered a legal blow on Friday afternoon when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed an order issued on October 20 by a federal appellate court ruling it could deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, under federal control.\…

On October 20, a three-judge appeals court ruled that Trump could federalize 200 National Guard troops for deployment to Portland, with two Trump-appointed judges in favor, while one Bill Clinton appointee was opposed.

However, on Friday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay preventing this from coming into effect until 5 p.m. on October 28 at the earliest, while the court decides whether to reconsider the case. The matter could now appear before a so-called en banc review, made up of 11 judges.

Donald Trump suffers another blow in National Guard deployment
President Trump’s bid to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, faced a setback on Friday.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suffers-another-blow-national-guard-deployment-10938250

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Raw Story: ICE officials living in a ‘culture of fear’ as arrests lag and jobs threatened: report

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A shakeup is looming at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because Donald Trump’s White House has become increasingly frustrated with the pace of arrests of undocumented immigrants — and now jobs are on the line.

According to a report from the New York Times, regional ICE officials are being asked to explain why arrest numbers are down which led former senior ICE official Claire Trickler-McNulty to explain, “They are under constant threat; people are ground down; it’s a culture of fear.”

Noting that the agency has been in constant turmoil, Trickler-McNulty added, “There has been so much shuffling of deck chairs — I can’t imagine anyone even having the ability to take on real challenges.”

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With the administration setting a goal of 600,000 deportations by the end of Trump’s first year of his second term, the report states the numbers are falling from the proposed 3,000 immigrants per day, ordered by Trump advisor Stephen Miller, down to slightly more than 1,000 a day.

ICE officials living in a ‘culture of fear’ as arrests lag and jobs threatened: report

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Poor crybabies! They’re terrorizing our communities while they whine about their own “culture of fear” because they haven’t terrorized enough people.

F*ck ’em!

LA Times: Letters to the Editor: Trump administration’s ‘clear pattern of recklessness’ affects us all

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  • ICE shooting in South L.A. exemplifies critics’ claim of clear recklessness across Trump administration departments, from military operations to immigration enforcement.
  • Letters from Southern California residents highlight concerns about warrantless ICE invasions, excessive force and erosion of constitutional protections for immigrants and citizens.
  • Federal actions from military exercises near Camp Pendleton to government shutdowns fuel accusations that the administration prioritizes enforcement over public safety and healthcare.

There is a clear pattern of recklessness by the Trump administration, transcending from one department to another of the federal government.

It ranges from the shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in South L.A. (“ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault,” Oct. 21), to firing dangerous live howitzer rounds over Interstate 5 near Camp Pendleton, to using excessive military force on small boats in the Caribbean that were allegedly carrying drugs, to the closure of the federal government, stalling negotiations on the problem created by devaluing healthcare funding that will harm millions of Americans.

What is clear is that the well-being and safety of American residents, whether undocumented immigrants or legal citizens, is of no concern to President Trump and his lieutenants. We see a program of cruelty to induce fear and to target anyone who disagrees with tactics to sidestep the Constitution and rules of law.

Letters to the Editor: Trump administration’s ‘clear pattern of recklessness’ affects us all
‘What is clear is that the well-being and safety of American residents, whether undocumented immigrants or legal citizens, is of no concern to President Trump and his lieutenants,’ writes an L.A. Times reader.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-10-24/trump-administration-recklessness-ice

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/letters-to-the-editor-trump-administration-s-clear-pattern-of-recklessness-affects-us-all/ar-AA1P6Tes

Guardian: Democratic senators call on education department to stop ICE raids by schools

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Cory Booker, Ed Markey and others urge Linda McMahon to step in amid violent crackdowns near Chicago schools

A group of Democratic senators have demanded that the Department of Education stop immigration enforcement activities from taking place close to schools, following several violent crackdowns near school grounds in Chicago.

Although the raids are conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the senators are making an appeal directly to the education secretary, Linda McMahon.

They said aggressive actions were affecting the safety of students.

“Federal agents continue to use unwarranted, excessive levels of force around Chicago, demonstrating an alarming lack of care or regard for the health and wellbeing of children, particularly by conducting unfocused, inflammatory operations within close proximity of school grounds,” the senators wrote, according to NBC News.

“We demand you pressure your colleague, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem, to reinstate restrictions on federal immigration enforcement operations in and around places of education.”

Democratic senators call on education department to stop ICE raids by schools
Cory Booker, Ed Markey and others urge Linda McMahon to step in amid violent crackdowns near Chicago schools

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/democratic-senators-ice-raids-schools

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News Nation: Pritzker calls for ‘truth, justice’ in response to Trump takeover

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order Thursday authorizing the creation of an accountability commission after the deployment of federal officers to the state.

At a news conference, Pritzker announced the creation of the Illinois Accountability Commission, dedicated to “truth, transparency and justice.” Tensions have risen in the state as demonstrators call for more accountability from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

“I am angry because this is not the country that I want for us,” Pritzker said. “This is not the country that any of us thought that we were living in. And yet here it is, nine months into an administration, I wish we didn’t have to do this. Can you imagine that we have to do this in this country?”

Pritzker said the commission will have three core missions: Creating a public record of the alleged abuses, capturing the impact on families and communities and recommending actions to prevent further harm and to pursue justice.

Pritzker calls for ‘truth, justice’ in response to Trump takeover

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The i Paper: Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats

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The deputy chief of staff’s power at the White House appears to know no bounds, and his voice is one of the most influential in the President’s ear

If civil war begins in the US – and with Donald Trump’s commitment to deploying troops on the country’s streets, there is every possibility that it might – Stephen Miller will probably view it as his own personal, signature achievement.

No figure in Trump’s inner circle exhibits more zealotry than Miller – the White House deputy chief of staff for policy – about the revolutionary ambitions of the “Make America Great Again” movement. Nor more of a willingness to lay waste the country’s constitutional guardrails in an effort to supercharge the President’s powers, disregard Congress, and ignore court rulings that fail to go the administration’s way.

Last week, even Trump acknowledged the extremism of the Rottweiler in his midst.

Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats
The deputy chief of staff’s power at the White House appears to know no bounds, and his voice is one of the most influential in the President’s ear
Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats

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Raw Story: ‘A recipe for disaster’: ICE scorched over recruitment chaos

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Reacting to a NBC News report that the rush to put more masked ICE agents on the streets is resulting in a flood of applicants who have violent histories and possible criminal backgrounds, the panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” warned chaos on U.S. cities is about to take a turn for the worse.

As co-host Mike Brzezinski reported, “ICE officials later discovered that some recruits had criminal backgrounds, failed drug tests, or did not meet physical or academic standards. What’s more, some recruits had not submitted fingerprints for background checks, which is a violation of ICE hiring policy. In fact, one recruit had prior charges for strong-armed robbery and battery related to domestic violence.”

“Additionally, nearly half of recruits failed the written exam, even with access to notes and textbooks,” she continued. “All of this as ICE has shortened its training program from 13 weeks to six weeks to accelerate the on-boarding process. ICE’s HR office is reportedly overwhelmed by more than 150,000 applicants, spurred by a $50,000 signing bonus.”

‘A recipe for disaster’: ICE scorched over recruitment chaos

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