At least seven people killed in Chicago shootings as Trump renews military call

Mayor says ‘violence has no place in our city’ as president criticizes governor for not accepting national guard troops…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/21/chicago-shootings-trump

 

Border patrol chief praised federal agent who shot US citizen in Chicago

Newly released evidence has shown that Gregory Bovino, a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts until last month, praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an immigration crackdown last year...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/gregory-bovino-praised-agent-shot-us-citizen-chicago

 

DHS Shot Her and Called Her a “Terrorist.” New Videos Show Something Different. – Mother Jones

Martinez, a US citizen and teacher's assistant at a Montessori school, also testified before Congress earlier this month that Exum intentionally sideswiped her vehicle. 

Following the crash, Exum gets out of his SUV with a handgun drawn. Within seconds, he fires five shots at Martinez…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/dhs-shot-terrorist-border-patrol-chicago-new-video-martinez/ 

 

Documents Reveal Real Reason for Raid on Chicago Apartment Building — ProPublica

"It was a brutal lie against the American public," said Mark Fleming, an attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center and co-counsel in a lawsuit against the government that led to the consent decree. "This was really about immigrants purportedly occupying apartments unlawfully, which is radically different than the story they told."… 

Even today, four months after the raid, federal prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against anyone who was arrested…

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua 

 

ICE’s Tear Gas Sent a 6-Month-Old to the Hospital, the Latest in an Alarming Pattern – Mother Jones

Federal agents' use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-tear-gas-on-kids-minneapolis-chicago-chemical-irritant/  

Trump ends National Guard deployment in 3 cities after Supreme Court loss - POLITICO

The president said troops will no longer be in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/donald-trump-national-guard-deployment-00708714 

 

Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois - POLITICO

And while the latest decision is not a final one on the legal issues at stake in the National Guard deployments, it is a significant setback for the president in a battle with Democratic leaders who have taken legal action to resist his efforts to advance his immigration agenda by putting federalized troops on the streets in several major cities...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/supreme-court-national-guard-ruling-00704962

 

President Trump calls Governor Pritzker a “big, fat slob.” #trump #healt...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8GdYykozAeA?si=hWG9wR4lW-e89btU

 

Nearly all immigrants detained in Trump Chicago raid had no criminal conviction

Data sharply contradicts officials' portrayal of immigration sweeps as effort to fight 'worst of the worst' criminals

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/trump-chicago-immigration-raid

 

After Midnight Raid on Chicago Apartment Building, No One Was Charged With a Crime — ProPublica

Soon afterward, President Donald Trump's administration released a slickly produced video of the operation. Officials said they had captured two "confirmed" members of Tren de Aragua, including one on a terrorist watch list. Stephen Miller, the White House homeland security adviser and architect of the nationwide immigration crackdown, declared that the building was "filled with TdA terrorists," that the raid had "saved God knows how many lives" and that it was "one of the most successful law enforcement operations that we've seen in this country." 

A ProPublica investigation, however, has found little evidence to support the government's claims. ProPublica has discovered the names of 21 of the detained Venezuelan men and women and interviewed 12 of them. We also spoke with dozens of their relatives, friends and neighbors. And we reviewed U.S. public records databases and court websites, examined court documents and social media accounts, obtained audio and video recordings made that night, and attended immigration court hearings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges 

Judge orders hundreds detained by ICE in Chicago area released over the next week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2o_mdDlD80

 

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago

"Mr Bovino and the Department of Homeland Security claimed that he had been hit by a rock in the head before throwing the tear gas, but video evidence disproves this. And he ultimately admitted he was not hit until after he threw the tear gas," Ellis said on Thursday, according to ABC News…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-chicago

 

Judge says immigration officers’ use of force in Chicago ‘shocks the conscience’ - The Washington Post

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said that officers are using excessive force against protesters and that the Department of Justice's defense for their actions was "simply not credible."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/06/judge-sharply-condemns-federal-use-force-chicago-immigration-operation/

 

The Supreme Court will decide if Trump can use the military against Americans | Vox

…So, there's a real chance that the Republican justices will resolve the Illinois case by simply assuming that order has broken down in Broadview and then interpreting the law as if Trump's claims are gospel. In the worst case scenario, they could also demand that lower courts defer to Trump even if he uses the military to suppress dissent or to intimidate Democratic voters...

https://www.vox.com/politics/465487/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-illinois-ice-chicago 

‘This is crazy’: Mika shocked by ICE removing two women from car near Chicago school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5xJcebp9ms

 

ICE tear gassed 27 Chicago police officers, Superintendent Snelling says

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/onCvjvWN7zA

 

Chicago TV producer’s arrest in Ice raid ‘alarming and horrifying’, lawyers say

Attorneys for Debbie Brockman, released with no charges, deny agent's claim she 'threw objects' at border patrol car…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/chicago-ice-tv-producer-arrest

 

Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Pritzker responded to the veiled threat by accusing Vance of coming out with a "tidal wave of lies". The governor told This Week that he was not intimidated by the prospect of prosecution as has befallen the former FBI director James Comey and the New York attorney general Letitia James, who have both been indicted in recent days.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/12/trump-vance-insurrection-act-military 

National Guard leaves Broadview ICE facility; judge orders fence taken down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrutuWETvM

 

Judge orders restrictions on federal tactics against ICE protesters after Chicago-area pastor shot with pepper balls | CNN

A judge in Illinois has temporarily blocked federal agents from using certain types of force and crowd-control measures against protesters, after video of a pastor being repeatedly shot by pepper balls during a demonstration outside at an ICE facility near Chicago drew widespread outcry...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/us/illinois-judge-ruling-ice-protests-pastor-chicago-hnk