CHICAGO, IL. (WBBM Newsradio) – Protestors gathered on Sunday at the Plaza Tenochtitlan on W. 18th Street and S. Loomis in Pilsen demanding answers over a perceived collaboration between ICE and CPD.
Organizer Omar Flores, with The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), says that he has video recording of CPD ‘white shirts’ having at least one conversation with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday June 4th, outside the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program offices at 2245 S. Michigan Avenue in the South Loop.
“That is completely uncalled for here in the city of Chicago, we have a welcoming city ordinance that prevents CPD from being able to collaborate with ICE. And they should follow that.”, said Flores.
“We saw armed, masked men, walk down our streets in broad daylight, and they kidnapped mothers and daughters. We saw them brutalize protestors and shove crying grandmothers into the back of unmarked vans,” said Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in his account of Wednesday’s ICE raid in the South Loop, while at a celebration of Immigrant Heritage Month inside the Harold Washington Library the day after, where Johnson fielded questions from reporters about the relationship between ICE and the Chicago Police Department…