Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement. Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids in Evanston, Illinois, amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.” His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,” Biss says. “If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest.”
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NERMEEN SHAIKH: Federal agents continue to carry out raids across the Chicago area. On Wednesday, armed ICE agents in black vests chased a teacher into a Spanish-language day care and preschool in front of children and parents. In video of the incident, the teacher can be heard screaming as the agents dragged her out of the school.
Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley said the teacher was a trusted member of the community with a work permit. Chicago Alderman Matt Martin denounced the ICE raid, saying, quote, “If they can do this at a day care where children are, where will they not go?”…