CHICAGO, IL — A South Side neighborhood is reeling after witnesses say Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided an entire apartment complex before sunrise, zip-tying families — including women, children, and seniors — and forcing them into unmarked vans.
Videos and firsthand accounts shared online describe a terrifying pre-dawn operation at the South Shore Apartments, where residents say armed federal agents flooded the building, banging on doors and ordering everyone outside at gunpoint.
“They Sieged an Apartment Full of American Citizens”
TikTok user @TheRealCornPop, who first reported the raid, said the early-morning chaos felt like something out of a war zone.
“They sieged an apartment complex full of American citizens with full military gear and disappeared people from this building,” he said in his viral video, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times…