Alejandra Cancino
@writeralejandra.bsky.social
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Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Former deputy editor at City Bureau. Earlier: BGA & Chicago Tribune. IRE_NICAR board member. Headline Club alum. Hablo español. ☕️🌎🪴 https://www.injusticewatch.org/projects/tenant-trap/
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."
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freedom.press
Law enforcement needs to rein in ICE's anti-press abuses and investigate ICE attacks on independent journalists in Chicagoland.

A coalition of Chicago and national press freedom orgs explained why in a letter to the Broadview Police Department and Illinois State Police today.
Independent journalists must be protected from ICE attacks
Letter calls on local authorities to investigate all attacks on journalists
freedom.press
writeralejandra.bsky.social
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danhinkel.bsky.social
CPD rehired Forberg as a criminal intelligence research specialist after he retired as a detective. His sometimes-partner, John Foster, remains a commander of detectives. Supt. Larry Snelling declined to discuss those facts.

Forberg also quit a small suburban department after I asked about the job.
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injusticewatch.org
Congratulations @kellygarcia.bsky.social on being part of the @pulitzercenter.org StoryReach fellowship! 🎉
pulitzercenter.org
We are excited to present the second cohort of the Pulitzer Center's StoryReach initiative.

Seven Fellows will spend a year reporting in-depth stories in the U.S. Midwest while also exploring engagement opportunities to expand story impact. 🧵
👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25
Introducing the Second Cohort of the StoryReach U.S. Fellowship - StoryReach Midwest - Our second cohort of seven StoryReach Fellows will focus on reporting and outreach in the Midwest
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nicolefoy.bsky.social
This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
propublica.org
In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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chicagotribune.com
A federal judge has concluded that the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on human smuggling charges may be an illegal retaliation after he successfully sued the Trump administration over his deportation to El Salvador.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia wins request for hearing on whether smuggling charges are illegally ‘vindictive’
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.
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writeralejandra.bsky.social
According to lawyers from the NGO Adalah, the rights of the crew members have been “systematically violated”, activists denied water, sanitation, medication and immediate access to their legal representatives.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
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dmihalopoulos.bsky.social
“He’s not doing anything.”

Certainly looks from this snippet like it was completely unprovoked
lordnad.bsky.social
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed.

Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."
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danhinkel.bsky.social
One thing to bear in mind here is that the union that represents the wide majority of Chicago police earlier this year dedicated the cover and a good chunk of the inside of its magazine for members to praising Tom Homan and ICE.
FOP February cover with Tom Homan and the headline The Ice Man Cometh
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avhndz.bsky.social
Los periodistas de @blockclubchi.bsky.social siguen informando sobre la actividad migratoria federal de hoy en Chicago. Si tiene grabaciones de la actividad de los agentes federales, contáctenos aquí:

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jimdaleywrites.bsky.social
Masked federal agents engaging in casual, reckless violence against the community—tossing tear gas canisters outside of an elementary school because they were blocked in traffic.
clancyny.bsky.social
Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
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stephenjacobsmith.com
“‘I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other…He said, “f*** them kids.”’

[…]

’They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van.’” abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
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shawnmusgrave.bsky.social
ICE targeted Leqaa Kordia for protesting the war in Gaza. To keep her in detention for six months and counting, the Trump administration made her get sworn affidavits from family members in Palestine about money Leqaa sent them for food, fuel, and medical bills.
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adamrose.bsky.social
FAA has issued MASSIVE temporary flight restriction which prohibits drones (i.e., photography) over Chicago.

They did similar around federal buildings in Los Angeles since June protests, but really no comparison...

Chicago's TFR covers 900x more area than ones in LA! 🧵👇
tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...
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royalpratt.bsky.social
8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...
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jimdaleywrites.bsky.social
‪ICE snatched—and has since separated—a family who’ve lived in Chicago for three years and were visiting Millennium Park because the daughter had begged to go. Now the mother and child are being held in a windowless room at O'Hare while the dad is inside the notorious Broadview detention facility.
Mother, children detained by ICE at Millennium Park Sunday held at O’Hare with other families: ‘We never imagined’
The mother said she felt her family was targeted because of their appearance. “There were a lot more people there, but the agents came directly to us because of how we look,” she said.
www.chicagotribune.com