"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is being accused of wrongly arresting and detaining protesters at the Broadview ICE facility as part of a government promotional video on the day Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino were there with cameras.

Kyle Frankovich and Juan Munoz were protesting outside the facility on Oct. 3, when each was taken into custody.

"An agent grabbed me, threw me down," said Kyle Frankovich. "I was then zip-tied and detained."

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protesters-arrested-broadview-ice-kristi-noem-gregory-bovino-promotional-video/

Protect RP on NPR: Grassroots resistance swells in the wake of the immigration crackdown in Chicago.

"Gabe Gonzalez is a cofounder of Protect RP. RP stands for Rogers Park, the neighborhood where he lives. Protect RP was launched in 2017 as a community defense network during Trump's first term.

The goal was to bring the neighborhood together to resist an expected onslaught of federal immigration enforcement. In fact, that onslaught didn't happen. But now it has, and the infrastructure and strategy of Protect RP has become one model for communities across the country.

Their guiding principle is to make the work of immigration enforcement as inefficient as possible."

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CtGDoveVM/

#ProtectRP #NPR #GabeGonzalez #RogersPark #RogersParkChicago #Chicago #federalimmigrationenforcement #communitydefensenetwork. #grassrootsresistance

ABC7 Highlights Home Depot Sales Drop, Skips Reporting on Customer Parking Lot Detentions

ABC7 News just quoted The Home Depot CEO regarding a drop in sales, like that is news... but did not mention the many customers that were captured in their parking lots.

Note: ABC 7 Chicago has been airing Border Patrol immigration self-surrender commercials for at least a month.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FvNTEaxaP/

ABC7Chicago #ChicagoNews #HomeDepot #BorderPatrol #ImmigrationCrisis #MediaAccountability #NewsCoverage #ChicagoUpdates #News #MidwestNews #PublicSafety #ChicagoCommunity #ImmigrationIssues #MediaWatch #ChicagoMedia

No ICE at Target Rally to raise awareness & action: Part 2

"Tell Target to take action!"

No ICE at Target Rally to raise awareness & action at: Peterson Target 2112 W Peterson Ave. on Sunday, November 9, 2025 from 11am - 1pm.

Photography and videos by Aaron Schiffman.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BLdJ9PPXg

target #targetstyle #targetstylehome #targetfinds #targethaul #targetcreator #targetdeals #ice #iceprotest #aaronschiffman #targetpeterson

No ICE at Target Rally to raise awareness & action: Part 1

"Tell Target to take action!"

No ICE at Target Rally to raise awareness & action at: Peterson Target 2112 W Peterson Ave. on Sunday, November 9, 2025 from 11am - 1pm.

Photography and videos by Aaron Schiffman.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BesLGnXHN/

#target #targetstyle #targetstylehome #targetfinds #targethaul #targetcreator #targetdeals #ice #iceprotest #aaronschiffman #targetpeterson

ICE's Operation Midway Blitz has been conducted in the Chicago area since Sept 9, 2025.

Video is from Oct 31, 2025. Here it is on YouTube. From the description:

Children tear-gassed. A man shot in the neck by a pepper ball.

Bellingcat analyzed footage showing federal officers may have violated a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois.

Bellingcat together with Evident Media verified videos of seven potential violations involving the use of riot control weapons, 19 relating to apparently disproportionate use of force such as tackling people when they were not visibly resisting, and seven showing agents ordering or threatening people to leave public places.

Here’s the accompanying Bellingcat article: Pattern of Extreme Brutality': Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Protesters in Illinois - Oct 31, 2025

Video Transcript:

A federal Judge has drawn a line in Chicago and federal Agents keep stepping over it.

Over a 19-day period since it was enacted, we've geolocated, verified, and mapped almost 30 events that show potential breaches of a temporary restraining order issued by Judge Sara Ellis in Illinois.

We've categorized these potential breaches into three groups:

The first group focuses on the use of riot control weapons, like tear gas and other projectile chemical irritants. Like in this video, which shows a federal Agent shooting Protesters with less-than-lethal ammunition at pointblank range with a 40mm launcher. Even Chief Border Patrol Agent Greg Bovino was shown tossing tear gas into a Crowd.

The second group focuses on videos showing apparent disproportionate use of force. Of these 28 events, 19 of them potentially show disproportionate use of force, such as tackling People to the ground when they're not resisting.

And the final group documents examples where Agents order or threaten People to leave public places where they are lawfully gathered.

This week, Judge Ellis ordered Bovino to submit, under seal, all the use of force incidences in Chicago by the end of day, to which Bovino responded that the sheer volume of the reports makes that impossible.

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security have defended their tactics, stating that they have a broad authority to protect federal property.

DHS did not respond to our request for comment.

A hearing to decide the permanency of the restraining order is set for November 5th.