The Bishops and ICE

In and around Chicago, ICE has broken down doors, zip-tied and detained residents regardless of their legal status, and trashed their homes without warrants. Federal troops have tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters, journalists, Chicago police officers, and even a pastor mid-prayer. Detainees include a local TV journalist who was tackled to the ground and thrown into a van, a Chicago alderwoman, and a fifteen-year-old U.S. citizen held for hours without being allowed to contact his family for the crime of throwing eggs at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. And the violence has escalated beyond that: one schoolteacher in her car was shot at five times by ICE agents, and a father of two was killed after attempting to evade arrest at a traffic stop.