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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 00:02:02 JST Nonilex

   Massive #immigration raid on #Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

   #DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid.

   #Trump #law #US #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2
   https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:29:14 JST Nonilex

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     #Armed federal agents in #military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, #women & #children from their apartments, some of them #naked, residents & witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the 5-story building, & #UScitizens were among those detained for hours.

     #Trump #law #US #immigration #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:29:26 JST Nonilex

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     When he got home from work, Dan Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics & furniture missing, & all of his clothes & shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings & hadn’t received answers from #Chicago #police [probably because they had nothing to do with it].

     “I’m pissed off,” Jones said. “I feel defeated because the authorities aren’t doing anything.”

     #Trump #law #immigration #MilitaryState #CivilRights #DueProcess #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:29:41 JST Nonilex

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     On Wednesday, toys, shoes & food were still in piles in the building’s hallways. Property managers were seen throwing mattresses & broken doors into dumpsters.

     #DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid. DHS said some of those arrested “are believed to be involved in drug trafficking & distribution, weapons crimes & #immigration violators.” [sure, whatever]

     #Trump #law #MilitaryState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:29:51 JST Nonilex

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     The feds also claimed the South Shore neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but #DHS gave NO EVIDENCE to support the assertion, & authorities did not confirm that any of the people arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang.

     #Trump #law #US #immigration #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:30:09 JST Nonilex

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     Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the raid. A #US #citizen, he said agents broke through his door & dragged him out in zip ties.

     Johnson said he was left #TiedUp outside the building for nearly 3 hours before agents finally let him go.

     “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, & they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a #warrant, & I asked for a #lawyer. They never brought one.”

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:30:25 JST Nonilex

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     In the South Shore raid, neighbors said federal agents used #flashbang #grenades to burst through the building & several #drones & helicopters were deployed.

     Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street, said it “looked like hundreds” of agents were outside her front door.
     Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including #kids, out of the
     building without any clothes on & into U-Haul vans. Kids were #separated from their mothers, she said.

     #Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:31:02 JST Nonilex

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     “It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing #kids coming out buck #naked & taken from their #mothers, it was horrible.”

     Watson said she went into the building to help one of the residents & was shocked by what she saw.

     “Stuff was everywhere,” said Watson. “You could see people’s #BirthCertificates, & papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

     #Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #Gestapo

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:31:02 JST Nonilex

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     Jones, who lives on the 4th floor, said most of his neighbors were #Venezuelan & often took turns cleaning the hallway because the property owners did little to maintain it.

     “They were cool people,” Jones said as he looked into his next door neighbor’s unit. “They didn’t speak a lick of English, but we used translator apps to talk to each other.”

     Jones wondered what would happen to his neighbor’s young #children.

     #Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #DueProcess #tyranny

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:31:33 JST Nonilex

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     Brandon Lee, spox for the #Illinois Coalition for #Immigrant & #Refugee Rights, said the group was working to identify those taken in the raid.
     “It was a #violent show of force in the middle of the night,” Lee said. “Taking #families out of an apartment building in a residential neighborhood like that is harmful, is #traumatic, & that is not something that people can easily recover from, whether they themselves were taken or whether they witnessed it.”

     #Trump #law #immigration #FamilySeparation

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     terag1e (terag1e@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:31:33 JST terag1e

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     @Nonilex I never want to hear another damn word about pre-dawn raids by the FBI again!

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     PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt: (pedestrianerror@towns.gay)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:31:46 JST PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:

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     @Nonilex If local police really want to serve & protect their residents, they need to use all their fancy spyware and the fact that the Trump administration leaks like a sieve because they all using insecure chat apps to communicate to find out where these attacks are planned and surround the buildings with local police, other city staff and their equipment. Some of these chuds are too lazy to walk a block if the street's blocked with trash trucks so they could be deterred.

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     Barbara Monaco (barbramon1@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:31:59 JST Barbara Monaco

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     @Nonilex I am sure that the children who were put out into the streets naked will never forget.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:32:30 JST Steve's Place

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     @mike @Nonilex There are none anywhere willing to do this.

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     Mike Fraser (mike@thecanadian.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:32:31 JST Mike Fraser

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     @Nonilex At some point somebodies going to call a sympathetic police dept in a blue city and you're going to see a stand off between federals and local cops. All it takes is a hair trigger and you'll be embarking on an armed constitutional crisis.

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     Joyce Bell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🚫🧊 (joycebell@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:32:47 JST Joyce Bell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🚫🧊

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     @Nonilex Chicago Sun Times’ headline is misleading making it sound like resident felt defeated because of the raid. Here’s the quote, ““I’m pissed off,” Jones said. “I feel defeated because the authorities aren’t doing anything.” Chicago Sun Times do better! Or better yet put “I’m pissed off” in the headline.

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     Feznander (feznander@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:32:58 JST Feznander

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     @Nonilex It's truly a little shocking to me that this isn't a top news story. Agents trashing a building, making off with people's valuables, and hauling naked children into the backs of UHauls? We used to accuse the media of being sensationalist, but they're evidently too defeated even to report on a genuine sensation these days.

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     Petr Skála (petr90@mastodonczech.cz)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 07:33:54 JST Petr Skála

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     @Nonilex Ani občan USA si již nemůže být jistý životem či majetkem před řáděním ozbrojených gangů MAGA. Trump je zločinec.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 02:39:25 JST Nonilex

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     So glad this made national news

     “Dozens of federal agents raiding an entire apartment building with kids in it just to see what they can find. It’s the most egregious abuse of our basic rights as Americans I've seen in a long time, maybe in my lifetime,” says Chris Hayes.

     #Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXOWAhFz0A

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:37 JST Nonilex

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     Federal agents were “just picking up people who are #brown & #Black & then checking their credentials,” #JBPritzker said. He added: “They are the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of #Chicago if they’re not going to focus on the ‘worst of the worst’, which is what the president said they were going to do.”

     #Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:37 JST Nonilex

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     #JBPritzker suggested that the #Trump admin, which planned to send 300 #NationalGuard troops to #Chicago, is intentionally heightening tensions. The administration wants to “create the war zone so they can send in even more troops,” he said.

     #Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:37 JST Nonilex

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     #JBPritzker said he had directed state agencies to investigate what happened at the apartment building, citing reports of “#children who were zip tied & held, some of them nearly naked” & “elderly people being thrown into a U-Haul for 3 hrs & detained.”Pritzker added he believed that some of the people were US #citizens.

     “What kind of a country are we living in?” he said. [#Trump country]

     #Chicago #law #immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:38 JST Nonilex

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     #Illinois Gov #JBPritzker condemned the #immigration *enforcement* [terrorism] in #Chicago, saying the #Trump admin was not pursuing criminals but “just picking up people who are #brown & #Black, & then checking their credentials”[if they bother]. Pritzker, who previously announced that Trump was sending 300 #NationalGuard #troops to the city, added the federal agents “are the ones that are making it a war zone.”
     #law #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:38 JST Nonilex

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     #Illinois Gov #JBPritzker blasted recent federal #immigration enforcement efforts in #Chicago on Sunday, & dismissed #DHS Secy [& dog killer] #KristiNoem’s assertions that the city was a “war zone”while blaming federal agents for escalating conflict.

     “The secretary doesn’t know what she’s talking about,”Pritzker said in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,”adding that Chicagoans were “booing her on the street.”

     #Trump #law #MilitaryState #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
     https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/pritzker-chicago-immigration.html?smid=url-share

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:38 JST Nonilex

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     #JBPritzker singled out a late-night #BorderPatrol raid last week at an apartment building on #Chicago’s South Side, when video taken by bystanders showed residents — some #naked, including #women & #children — of the building restrained with zip ties.

     #Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:39 JST Nonilex

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     Gov #JBPritzker is directing the state’s Dept of Child & Family Services & the Dept of Human Services to evaluate how #children were treated during an aggressive #immigration raid on a South Shore apartment building this week….

     #DHS said federal agents with #BorderPatrol, the #FBI, & the #ATF arrested at least 37 people in the raid, making it one of the largest operations executed since the start of “Operation Midway Blitz” on Sept 8.

     #Trump #law #Chicago #FamilySeparation #PoliceBrutality

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:39 JST Nonilex

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     “#Military-style tactics should never be used on #children in a functioning #democracy,” said the governor in the statement. “As more details emerge, I am appalled by the reports of excessive use of force against children as well as the many innocent bystanders who were punished simply for residing in that building.”

     #Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:39 JST Nonilex

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     #JBPritzker said the 2 state agencies will contact #families & children impacted by the raid to gather information. If they receive allegations of suspected abuse or neglect by #FederalAgents, the governor said the state will move to hold the agents accountable, which could include “collaborating with local law enforcement as necessary.”

     #Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:39 JST Nonilex

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     “Imagine being a child awakened in the middle of the night by a Black Hawk helicopter landing in your neighborhood. Imagine an armed stranger forcibly removing you from your bed, zip-tying your hands, separating you from your family, & detaining you in a dark van for hours. This didn’t happen in a country with an authoritarian regime — it happened here in #Chicago,” #JBPritzker said in the statement.

     #Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:40 JST Nonilex

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     A #DHS spox confirmed the operation….

     The spox declined to say whether agents had #warrants to forcibly enter homes….

     4 #US #citizen #children were taken from their parents during the raid because the parents lacked legal status, DHS said, alleging that one of the parents was a Tren de Aragua member.

     #Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #FamilySeparation #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:40 JST Nonilex

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     Cassandra Murray, 55, a resident, said she heard loud blasts as the raids occurred.

     She said her #Venezuelan neighbors arrived about two years ago. At the time, thousands of Venezuelans who had recently crossed the US-Mexico border were being bused to #Chicago & other blue cities by the state of #Texas.

     “They never made us feel unsafe,” said Murray. “They needed somewhere to live, too."

     #Trump #law #immigration #DueProcess #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #WhiteSupremacy

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:40 JST Nonilex

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     #JBPritzker calls on state agencies to investigate feds’ treatment of #children at South Shore raid

     The governor said that 2 state agencies will contact #families & children impacted by the raid to gather more information & hold #FederalAgents accountable if allegations of #abuse or #neglect emerge.

     #Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
     https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/03/pritzker-call-state-agencies-investigate-feds-treatment-of-children-at-south-shore-raid

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:41 JST Nonilex

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     Reuters has picked up the report

     #Trump #BorderPatrol agents deployed to #Chicago led late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops & breaking down doors in an operation authorities *said* targeted *gang members* but which [brutally] swept up #US #citizens & #families.

     #law #immigration #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #MilitaryState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
     https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-border-patrol-raid-sweeps-citizens-families-chicago-crackdown-intensifies-2025-10-04/

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:41 JST Nonilex

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     Naudelys, a 19-yr-old #Venezuelan woman, says she was in her apartment with her 4-year-old son & another couple with a baby when agents knocked down their door during the raid early Tuesday. Agents told them to put up their hands & pointed #guns at them.

     Naudelys, whose husband was arrested & detained by #immigration authorities 3 months ago, said she tried to record the scene but an agent knocked away her phone.

     #Trump #law #Chicago #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #FamilySeparation #Gestapo

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 03:23:41 JST Nonilex

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     The Spanish-speaking agents told them to go back to their country & made a #sexualized remark about #Venezuelan #women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son, & she begged him to stop, she said.

     "My son was traumatized," said Naudelys, who requested her last name be withheld.

     She said authorities alleged her friend's partner is a member of the gang Tren de Aragua, something she disputes.

     #Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #SexualHarassment