The ice denies the use of excessive force because it expands the migration arrests in Chicago
At 3:30 am when immigration and customs officers in the United States gathered in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago to surround the suspects who were hoping for arrest. He surpassed a person’s description, made sure that their radio devices are on the same channel, and discussed where the closest hospital was in the event of an error.
One of the officers said, before they went up to their cars and went to their vehicles: “Let’s plan not to be there.”
Throughout the city and the surrounding suburbs, the other teams were going out to support the “Midway Blitz” operation. He unleashed the deportation of President Donald Trump in a city and a country that has some of the strongest laws that prevent local officials from cooperating with the application of immigration.
ICE launched the operation on September 8, which caused anxiety from activists and migratory societies for fear of widespread arrests or aggressive tactics used in other cities targeted by the Republican President. They say there was a noticeable rise in immigration enforcement agents, although the military deployment of Chicago has not yet been fulfilled.
The Associated Press went on a trip with ice in the Chicago suburb-a lot of the last focus-to know how this process is revealed.
Wait previously, then two arrests
The sound came over the radio: “Enter the car. I’m not sure if this is the goal.”
Someone matches the description of the man who was looking for ice out of the house, entered a car and went away from the street lining up on the floor. Not sure whether this is their goal, the officers follow. After a few minutes, as the car approaches the highway, the sound said on the radio: “He got a physical description. We cannot see the face well.”
“Do that,” said Marcus Charles, the chief of enforcement and removal of ice on behalf.
The agents soon excelled in multiple vehicles over the car and combined it. After talking to the man, they realized that he was not the person looking for him, but he was in the United States illegally, so they took him in the reservation.
Ultimately, shortly after the dawn of the dawn on the two -storey brick houses, the man they were looking for from the house went out and entered a car. She closed ice officers. The man got out of the car and was arrested. Ice said that both men were illegally in the country and have criminal records.
Mr. Charles called it a “successful operation.”
He said: “There were no safety cases by our officers, nor the individuals we arrested. He went smoothly.”
“Ice does not belong here”
ICE activists and critics say that this is not increasingly the rule of migration operations.
They refer to videos that are shown that ice agents break the windows to arrest the suspects, a chaotic confrontation outside an Italian restaurant in San Diego, and arrests such as Tatz University student in March by masked agents outside her apartment in Summerille, Massachusetts, as the neighbors saw.
Mr. Charles said that Ice uses a “appropriate” amount of strength and that agents respond to suspects who are increasingly follow -up.
He said that there is a “rise in people who are not compatible”, and he blames inflammatory discourse from activists who encourage people to resist.
Aldurman André Vasquez, who heads the Chicago City Council for Immigrants and Refugees, has strongly objected to this description, and he collides with ice for any escalation.
“We are not here to cause chaos. The president is,” Mr. Vasquez. He accused migration enforcement agents of trying to provoke activists in an exaggerated reaction in order to justify the connection using a greater force like the National Guard forces. “The ice does not belong here.”
The shooting of migrants is increased by the Ice Officer tensions
Chicago was already ready when the shooting increased on September 12.
The US Internal Security Ministry, an ice officer, called Silverva Village Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant who tried to evade arrest In a suburb of Chicago By driving his car on the officers and withdrawing one of them. The administration said that the officer felt that his life was threatened and opened the fire, killing the man.
Mr. Charles said he could not comment because there is an open investigation. But he said he met with the hospital officer, saw his injuries and felt that the force used was appropriate.
Mr. Charles said that the officer was not wearing a body camera.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called for “full and struggling accounting” to shoot. Mexican President Claudia Shinbom condemned the death and said that Mexico was calling for a comprehensive investigation.
“These tactics have lost the life of a member of our society,” said Democratic Representative Norma Hernandez.
The man’s lawyer said that in another incident of the force incident under the title “Midway Blitz”, which led to criticism, an American citizen was detained by immigration agents alongside his father and hit him with a thunderbolt rifle three times on Tuesday in the Dis Blanes suburb, Illinois.
Local defenders also condemned the ice agents to wear masks, and they failed to identify themselves, and not to use body cameras – the procedures that are starkly contradicted with the Chicago Police management policy.
“It is time to strike Chicago.”
Mr. Charles said there is no timetable for the ice -led operation in the Chicago region to end. As of Thursday, immigration enforcement officials arrested nearly 550 people. Mr. Charles said that 50 % to 60 % of these targeted arrests, which means that they are people trying to migrate exactly to find it.
He pushed back to criticize that Ice targets people randomly, saying that agents were not “going out to parking at home” to make random arrests.
Mr. Charles said Ice brought more than 200 officers from all over the country for the operation.
He said that for a long time, cities such as Chicago that limit cooperation with ICE, especially those who have criminal records, allowed the country to remain illegally. He said that it was time to act.
“It’s time to strike Chicago.”
This story was reported by Associated Press.
The Associated Press Cristin Fernando contributed to Chicago to this report.