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Tracy Mumford (0:34)
From the New York times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today is Wednesday, October 15th. Here's what we're covering in Chicago and the surrounding south suburbs. He's a citizen. He's a citizen. A crackdown by federal immigration agents has been intensifying. What started with a slow uptick in arrests has escalated rapidly, with agents, sometimes in masks, pulling up to people on sidewalks and detaining them. And the encounters are increasingly turning into open confrontations.
Julie Bosman (1:20)
I've seen a lot of very aggressive tactics from federal agents who have fired tear gas and pepper balls at not just protesters, but at people on city streets who have formed crowds when they see people being arrested.
Tracy Mumford (1:37)
Julie Bosman is the Chicago bureau chief for the Times. She says just yesterday ICE agents used tear gas on a crowd, apparently without warning. The scene was so chaotic that even police officers nearby were exposed, with one officer seen rinsing out his eyes with a garden hose.
Julie Bosman (1:54)
In response to these aggressive tactics from federal agents, I think that regular Chicagoans are really pushing back. They crowd around when Asians are making arrests. They organize on Facebook. They try to warn other people. I've heard a lot of, you know, honking horns when agents are spotted on the street, people blowing whistles when they see immigration agents. So things just feel very tense and getting more tense here in Chicago.
Tracy Mumford (2:30)
Julie says that the residents who have been pushing back and even organizing patrols of their own say they're trying to protect their neighbors and that they feel the city didn't need a surge of federal law enforcement. One city council member said, quote, chicagoans are just trying to live their life. We're not going to tolerate unconstitutional authoritarianism. Federal authorities originally told local officials that they expected the operation in Chicago to last for 45 days as they said they needed to find and arrest undocumented immigrants. There now appears to be no set end date. In the past few weeks, the Trump administration also deployed hundreds of National Guard troops to the Chicago area, saying they were needed to protect federal agents. The effort was recently blocked temporarily by a federal judge who accused the Trump administration of misrepresenting the facts on the ground to justify the deployment. Now three other quick updates on the Trump administration. Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government and because of this, many of our operations are impacted and most of our TSA employees are working without pay. As the government shutdown hits the two week mark, the president and his team are turning up the political pressure on Democrats. Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, recently asked airports across the country to play a video on TV screens near security checkpoints that blames the shutdown on Democrats. A number of airports, however, have refused to show the video, saying it's overly partisan and potentially even a violation of the Hatch Act, a law intended to limit political activities by federal employees.