Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city by population. Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down doors, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from their apartments, residents and witnesses told the Chicago Sun-Times.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people without legal immigration status, including some with criminal records. The spokesperson claimed the South Shore neighborhood is “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates.”
“Due to the size of this operation, DHS law enforcement is continuing to gather more information on those arrested and will provide more information when available,” the spokesperson said. “Federal law enforcement officers will not stand by and allow criminal activity flourish in our American neighborhoods.”
ICE speedruns abuse of power any%
New PB
“including some with criminal records”
= a couple of them have old weed tickets or driving with an expired license tickets.
they keep saying “criminal records” over and over, because it sounds so bad… but most of the “criminal records” are petty, lower misdemeanors… NOT a criminal record, but in their life they’ve had one tiny “crime”…
went to court, got no jail time and paid the small fine….
wording mattersThe ICE Agent from last week who dropped his weapon, then pointed it without a clip. His response to why the man was being arrested was that “he’s a criminal.” Not that he’s a suspect, or that there’s a criminal warrant. Apparently, the police are now deciding who’s guilty without trials.
When rounding up children to send to Concentration Camps, the name you can trust is U-Haul.
Trust U-Haul with all your Concentration Camp needs.
That name again is U-Haul.
UHaul better stop renting to them or it might hurt their brand. When the mass exodus happens people will need a truck
How would U-Haul know prior to giving them the truck?
Are we assuming the people not carrying identification while abducting children are being forthright about their purposes when renting the vehicle? Seems unlikely.
How would U-Haul know prior to giving them the truck? Are we assuming the people not carrying identification while abducting children are being forthright about their purposes when renting the vehicle? Seems unlikely.
Found the guy with U-Haul in his investment portfolio.
Based on your “will someone think of poor U-Haul” slant, in light of hauling children off to Concentration Camps, i feel a strong moral imperative to blast my messaging louder, and see what can be done in a coordinated manner, to inflict maximal financial harm to U-Haul.
You’ve inspired me.
I get why you’re outraged, but I don’t think your assumption that the other poster is shilling for u-haul is well founded. As far as I know (from the last time I rented a U-Haul years before this administration), they don’t ask you what you intend to use it for. It is a tool with an obvious purpose—moving your stuff from one location to another.
They also make you sign paperwork saying that people will not ride in the back, so they had reasonable safety in mind within the intended purpose of the unit and the anticipated risk factors within that use case.
It is a good point that they should probably change their policies to log the intended use now that they know their trucks have been used in this way, but it isn’t reasonable to think that they should have anticipated that their moving trucks would have been used by ICE before it happened.
Precisely my point. I don’t think these trucks are being rented to individuals that use them for malicious purposes, not specifically to ICE for use as impromptu prisoner transport.
I get why you’re outraged, but I don’t think your assumption that the other poster is shilling for u-haul is well founded. As far as I know (from the last time I rented a U-Haul years before this administration), they don’t ask you what you intend to use it for. It is a tool with an obvious purpose—moving your stuff from one location to another.They also make you sign paperwork saying that people will not ride in the back, so they had reasonable safety in mind within the intended purpose of the unit and the anticipated risk factors within that use case.It is a good point that they should probably change their policies to log the intended use now that they know their trucks have been used in this way, but it isn’t reasonable to think that they should have anticipated that their moving trucks would have been used by ICE before it happened.
There’s nothing that I enjoy more than seeing attempts at tone policing, and throwing an ice cold bucket of i don’t give a fuck on it.
Now I will absolutely lean into dragging U-Haul for complicity in the American Holocaust. Predominantly for their stepping up to provide material assistance for hauling children to Concentration Camps.
Meanwhile, you will stand over there and stick berries up your nose while the fascists run wild.
Ignoring your insults towards me, I ask you this question:
Was the fertilizer company responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing because their product was used in a way it wasn’t intended for? After the tragedy, improved monitoring systems were created to track people who were buying industrial amounts of fertilizer without a clear need for using it in agriculture, but before the bombing, they did not think it would be used in that way and there were no safeguards in place.
In my opinion, that’s where we are with U-Haul. Their product has been used in a terrible way that it wasn’t designed for—what they do next will be the thing I judge them for.
Isn’t it disheartening to engage a conversation where the other party moves the goalposts at every opportunity while claiming moral superiority? They just invoked the Proud Boys as a precedent setting group as if that’s something to be aspired to.
Ignoring your insults towards me, I ask you this question:Was the fertilizer company responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing because their product was used in a way it wasn’t intended for? After the tragedy, improved monitoring systems were created to track people who were buying industrial amounts of fertilizer without a clear need for using it in agriculture, but before the bombing, they did not think it would be used in that way and there were no safeguards in place.In my opinion, that’s where we are with U-Haul. Their product has been used in a terrible way that it wasn’t designed for—what they do next will be the thing I judge them for.
Tl;dr: Please treat U-Haul gently, like a baby bird. They are completely innocent and helpless.
Because the health and wellbeing of U-Haul is the most important thing to focus on right now.
Nice work.
That’s a lot of extrapolation. I don’t care about the company, I only asked a logistical question. I was thinking how they could have prevented this from happening. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s possible.
Having rented a moving truck before, I’ve been asked the basic questions of expected mileage or if you’re driving it out of town and whether you want additional insurance. My point was that there is no method to verify what the customer says about their purposes. Rentals get used for purposes other than house moving all the time and there’s not really a way to stop it.
I have no warmth for the largest moving company in North America, which is why I use a local option when possible, but I also won’t attribute malice for what isn’t possible for them to stop.
It’s entirely plausible this same thing is happening with rental trucks of Penske or small local places and it just hasn’t made the news. Despite naming them, my question had nothing to do with U-Haul specifically, so coordinated action isn’t particularly relevant unless you are advocating everyone buy their own moving truck.
That’s a lot of extrapolation. I don’t care about the company, I only asked a logistical question. I was thinking how they could have prevented this from happening. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s possible. Having rented a moving truck before, I’ve been asked the basic questions of expected mileage or if you’re driving it out of town and whether you want additional insurance. My point was that there is no method to verify what the customer says about their purposes. Rentals get used for purposes other than house moving all the time and there’s not really a way to stop it. I have no warmth for the largest moving company in North America, which is why I use a local option when possible, but I also won’t attribute malice for what isn’t possible for them to stop. It’s entirely plausible this same thing is happening with rental trucks of Penske or small local places and it just hasn’t made the news. Despite naming them, my question had nothing to do with U-Haul specifically, so coordinated action isn’t particularly relevant unless you are advocating everyone buy their own moving truck.
This is all just plea bargaining to claim complacency instead of complicity.
I’ll redouble my efforts.
I don’t see how you think it’s complicity. Has there been any evidence of U-Haul giving trucks en masse to ICE for the purpose of transporting abducted people?
If you are of the belief that U-Haul is complicit, then you should have no trouble answering the question. How does any rental service prevent their vehicles from being used for anything other than the advertised purpose?
Surely we won’t be putting that responsibility on the minimum wage employee working the front desk.
I don’t see how you think it’s complicity. Has there been any evidence of U-Haul giving trucks en masse to ICE for the purpose of transporting abducted people? If you are of the belief that U-Haul is complicit, then you should have no trouble answering the question. How does any rental service prevent their vehicles from being used for anything other than the advertised purpose? Surely we won’t be putting that responsibility on the minimum wage employee working the front desk.
We are simply expressing differences in our priorities and values.
You are putting in extra work here to ensure that the good name of U-Haul remains unsullied.
I am putting in words to discourage businesses from participating in a Holocaust.
But please, go on and tell me more about the plight of U-Haul.
Agreed! Truly inspiring!
Crazy how they have all these resources to look tacticool with mothers and naked children. Can’t get these fuckers to go after real crime like this, but mothers and kids? “Lets fucking go!”.
Can’t get these fuckers to go after real crime
Targeting the South Side of Chicago is deliberate, precisely because its the place where all the “criminals” live. This is part of the meta-narrative of all big cities being these festering hives of violence and robbery. It’s the same justification Israelis have used to purge Gaza and the West Bank. Hell, its the justification the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, the Hinduvistas invading Kashmir, and the GRU along the Russian border have been using.
To be fair, parts of Chicago have major problems with crime and gang culture.
We really shouldn’t pretend that gangbangers haven’t earned at least some of the criticism directed towards them.
To be fair, parts of Chicago have major problems with crime and gang culture.
That’s been the historical line. But even the more violent parts of Chicago are only violent by volume. Per capita, they’re at or below the national average.
Chicago’s also got a problem of over-policing, particularly in the wake of the 90s “Tough on Crime” bloating of the CPD staff and budget. More cops with a mandate to catch criminals will find more people to arrest for crimes. Even as crime rates fall, the per-capita population of cops only ever seems to rise. Because cops aren’t equipped to treat the causes of crime, only to suppress the symptoms, you end up with neighborhoods where people are too terrified of the cops to leave their homes.
That’s before you get into Police Gangs (an epidemic in the LAPD and LASD and certainly not unknown in Chicago). White nationalists love to join the police, the sheriff’s department, and the various FBI/National Guard/ICE/DEA whenever they can sneak in. And police are useful intermediaries for cartels and other criminal enterprises (and white collar rackets - debt collectors, unscrupulous landlords, insurance fraudsters) because they protect one another from indictment and prosecution.
“Crime” and “Gang Culture” tend to be code words for “Black people trying to work together to make a living”. By contrast, a police helicopter bombing of an apartment block or a series of BLM activists burned alive in their own cars, is totally under reported.
If MLK was alive today, the police would have tagged him as a gang member by now.
Can’t forget the secret prisons in Chicago, too.
Well, the south side of Chicago is the baddest part of town.
Just ask bad, bad Leroy Brown.
Good call, he was the baddest man in the whole damn town.
Yeah what did a helicopter contribute to the operation here?
Letting the piggies pretend to be badass movie heroes while brutalizing nonviolent minorities.
And some or all of the agents are currently not going to receive their next paycheck if the government stays shut down.
They are willing to do this for free.
Not for free. Government employees who are deemed essential continue to work through shutdowns and receive their back pay when the shutdown ends.
They’re still jackbooted thugs but they aren’t doing it for free.
They only get their back pay if congress authorizes it. While that has happened during prior shutdowns, it does not mean they are guaranteed to be paid this time.
They still count as working for free until they get their backpay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Employee_Fair_Treatment_Act_of_2019
That was true before 2019. It is no longer the case.
Like the current administration cares about the law.
Yeah, I’d love to see them try this on cartel. Jeeeeesus that’s be world news.
They wouldn’t try. These brave cops who dare not show their faces will only attack those who they know can’t fight back.
Not quite the same type of jackboot here, but nonetheless “Uvalde” is all we need to know about how heroism LARPers pick and choose their violence in the most vile ways.
Guarantee if we ever see an armed response to one of these ICE raids, the LARPers will fall into chaos and shoot everywhere, likely killing a WHOLE lotta people by accident, probably including a lot of each other (all of which will be blamed on the targets of course).
And you’d imagine if there were any of these hardened criminals among their targets like they claim, at least one of em would’ve tried to shoot their way out of deportation by now. Weird!
Yeah, Stephen Miller told ICE to stop going after the cartel and to focus on Home Depots instead.
well they’d probably shoot the helicopter…
That’d be fun to watch
So there’s no chance they aren’t grabbing US Citizens during this shit right?
It’s been documented repeatedly. Legal visa holders, legal green card holders, fully naturalized citizens, natural born citizens, it doesn’t fucking matter.
If they don’t like you, you’re “illegal”.
It sounds like they’re training a paramilitary on women and children
These guys just wanted and excuse to cosplay as special forces, but without having to put the effort you would normally need in the entry process
Wondering how long before we have our own Kristallnacht and Trump goes full Final Solution…
Probably by next week
Rappelled from helicopters, Government efficiency at work.
“Yeah that’s right, uh-huh, we’re bad-ass tough guys! We’re macho soldiers! We’re not afraid of no naked children, no sir! We’ll kick those naked childrens’ asses!” *makes body builder poses* “We’re so macho! I’m so hard right now!!1!”
They keep mentioning this “Trendy Arugula”, but I don’t see how salad preferences justify any of the shit they’re pulling.
Parkour!
Real footage of ICE jumping from the helicopter
