The show of force highlighted President Donald Trump's unprecedented use of Border Patrol agents as a surge force in major cities, rerouting personnel who would normally be tasked with guarding America's borders with Mexico and Canada.
Naudelys, whose husband was arrested and detained by immigration authorities three months ago, said she tried to record the scene but an agent knocked away her phone. The Spanish-speaking agents told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son, and she begged him to stop, she said. “My son was traumatized,“ said Naudelys, who requested her last name be withheld.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which includes Border Patrol, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Naudelys' account of the raid.
The incident in the city's South Side neighborhood, which authorities said resulted in dozens of arrests, was one of the highest-profile immigration actions in Chicago since
in the city last month. Hundreds of agents swarmed the apartment building during the raid on Tuesday, including some rappelling down to the roof from Black Hawk helicopters, according to NewsNation.
Authorities arrested at least 37 people on immigration violations, most of whom were Venezuelan, the spokesperson said. The spokesperson said two people arrested were alleged members of Tren de Aragua. The department identified six people with criminal histories, ranging from battery to marijuana possession and said two people were suspected of being involved in a shooting. The spokesperson declined to say whether agents had warrants to forcibly enter homes, saying that because Tren de Aragua has been labeled a terrorist organization “there are sensitivities on what we can provide without putting people at risk.”
Four U.S. 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.
Naudelys said authorities released her and her son later that day because she has a pending asylum case. Her apartment was boarded up when she returned, she said. Workers opened it for her, but her possessions were gone, she said.
“They never made us feel unsafe,“ said Murray. “They needed somewhere to live, too.” One resident, who asked not to be named, reported being made to lie down on the ground by agents during the raid and having his hands zip-tied.
“Policing an urban environment is totally, completely different,“ he said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have also come under scrutiny over the use of tear gas against protesters at one of its Chicago facilities and the fatal shooting of a Mexican man.
In Los Angeles over the summer, Border Patrol agents conducted immigration sweeps in Home Depot parking lots and other public areas that contributed to a federal judge's decision to block overt racial profiling in the area. The Supreme Court in September sided with the Trump administration, allowing it to resume the tactics.
“We are here, Chicago, and we are not going anywhere,“ Bovino said on X last month alongside a video of the arrest of a man he said was a Venezuelan gang member in a Home Depot parking lot, edited to a song by rapper Travis Scott.
“Gregory Bovino has been leading the disruption and causing mayhem while he gleefully poses for photo ops and TikTok videos,“ he said -REUTERS
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