*talking to teenage militant atheist self*
current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church
teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government
current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one
Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
Figure wearing serape USA flag. North Ave just east of Ashland. Wicker Park, Chicago.
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"This case is replete with evidence of bad faith, of an abandonment of public virtue. Of a lack of honest devotion to the public interest and of a grave risk of usurpation or wanton tyranny.”
Illinois v. Trump (ILND No. 25-cv-12174), Oral Argument, Oct. 9, 2025.
Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:
Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies
Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things
Violently handcuffed an Alderperson
It's 3pm
Matter of Jonathan Javier YAJURE HURTADO, Respondent Decided September 5, 2025 U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review Board of Immigration Appeals Based on the plain language of section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) (2018), Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond requests or to grant bond to aliens who are present in the United States without admission.
🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
How many people have been kidnapped by ICE?
