Donald Trump is not sending the best people to “clean up” Chicago. That is, unless your idea of “best” means armed thugs terrifying legal residents.
According to ABC7 Chicago, DHS officials say they arrested 37 people in Chicago’s South Shore area “known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates.” The raid occurred in the middle of the night on Tuesday, September 30.
Clearly, the goal was to intimidate with a show of unnecessary force, not to make residents feel safer.
More via ABC7:
[Resident Pertissue] Fisher said she came out to the hallway of her apartment complex on the corner of 75th and South Shore Drive in her nightgown around 10 p.m. Monday only to find armed ICE agents yelling “police.”
“It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face,” Fisher said. “They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, ‘No,’ I didn’t.”
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.
Neighbor Eboni Watson didn’t sound like she feels safer now, either:
