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Indrukwekkende foto. Een Amerikaanse agent houdt een demonstrant aan in East Side, Chicago. Het is onrustig in de stad sinds federale agenten twee weken geleden een wooncomplex binnen vielen om vermeende Venezolaanse bendeleden op te pakken. De Amerikaanse immigratiedienst ICE voert steeds meer invallen uit in Chicago.FOTO ANTHONY VAZQUEZ / CHICAGO SUN-TIMES / AP
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Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…

On Halloween, 'state-sponsored terror' in Chicago and the north suburbs (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/chicag-halloween-immigration-raids-evanston/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p28#a251101p28

Appeals Court To Hear Ten Commandments Cases - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/federal-appeals-court-to-hear-ten-commandments-cases/

Good thing the Governor and the mayor are doing so much about this
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Warner Crocker (@WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Dark skies in Chicago. Helicopters and drones overhead all day. #Chicago #ICE

A federal judge Thursday ordered the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement,
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino,
to appear for a deposition to explain federal agents’ use of tear gas and other less lethal weapons against protesters who have taken to the streets to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is replacing ICE leadership at half the country’s field offices with Border Patrol off…

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…

Immigration Agents Clash With Chicago-Area Residents on Halloween (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/chicago-ice-immigration-agents.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p43#a251101p43

Donald Trump announced he is pulling the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland,
although the troops already had a limited presence because those states had sued to block their deployment.

Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that troops would return if “crime begins to soar again.”

The Trump administration has been battling lawsuits aimed at removing the National Guard from cities in blue states.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much differ…

Trump ends effort to bring National Guard to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland
President Trump has announced the withdrawal of National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, citing reduced crime rates.

Flu cases are rising with a strain that makes older people sicker m
The CDC estimates there have been at least 4.6 million flu-related illnesses,
at least 49,000 hospitalizations
and 1,900 deaths this season,
which started in late September and may run through March or April.

The wrinkle is a new strain of flu which is a version of H3N2, a type of influenza A, that’s quickly become the most common one in the U.S.
The H3N2 strain is typically associated wi…

Flu cases are rising with a strain that makes older people sicker
Flu season is ramping up in the U.S., marked by a new strain that could make vaccines less effective. Covid cases remain down.