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Nora in Librarylalaland
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Bibliotecaria ~ Librarian
En esta 🏠 se habla Spanglish 🌈
She/Ella.
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calls to abolish ice didn't start when trump got elected in 2024 or even in 2016.

ice has operated the detention center in broadview, illinois, for ~20 years.

the chicago field office, which covers six states, surveilled 20,000 people on electronic monitors as of sept 2024.
More immigrants are under surveillance by ICE's Chicago field office than ever, data analysis finds
The number of people being electronically monitored by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in six states, including Illinois, has grown from 2,921 in 2019 to 19,160 last month. No other ICE field...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Another Africa ICE removal underway, via a private jet operated by Journey Aviation. Like Journey’s ICE trip to Liberia last week, this is likely a third-country removal.

In the six weeks the South Sudan 7 were stuck in Djibouti, this aircraft was used to swap out ICE guards every few weeks.
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Drunk border patrol agent was in a womens restroom with a loaded gun + one in the chamber
then wandering the parking lot of a restaurant with his gun out then resisted police and threw the fucking thing *loaded*
The police tried to deny giving any of this info but this indie newsroom prevailed!
A Border Patrol agent accused of drunkenly fighting with Long Beach police overdosed weeks after his arrest, according to his lawyer. New body-camera footage shows what he told the cops who'd wrestled him into custody: lbpost.com/news/isaiah-hodgson-drunk-border-patrol-arrest-long-beach-overdose/
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days

Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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If you can get past all the cop quotes, there is a lot of important detail in here on the timeline of the last few months and how much violence the feds have inflicted on people. Infuriating and despair-inducing.
Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.

To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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It's not even 11am yet, and federal agents have gassed the northwest side of Chicago twice this morning.

Just before 10, NWSRR reports they detained two people in Irving Park, one of them known to be a US citizen: www.instagram.com/p/DQPKhmDEd4W/
October 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Libraries have never been neutral spaces. #libraries
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM