City Is Not Using Salt Trucks To Thwart ICE, Despite Viral Posts Claiming Otherwise

DOWNTOWN — A viral post claiming salt trucks are blocking immigration enforcement actions in Chicago is false, according to city officials.

The post went viral on Instagram, showing city salt trucks parking end-to-end along a city street, with the video’s caption saying there was a “wall of trucks, moving slow, making it clear: ICE isn’t welcome here.”

“By dawn today, [state] plows and salt trucks were out on I-294, the Edens, and I-94 — crawling shoulder to shoulder, jamming every lane into Chicago,” reads the post shared by the organizers of the No Kings movement. “A wall of trucks, moving slow, making it clear: ICE isn’t welcome here. Well done Chicago”…

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