Relevant Fisher is still recovering from the detention of federal immigration agents who have burst into its southern bank apartments building and drawn it as well as other residents of their beds early Wednesday morning.
An agent put a gun, she said. Another placed it in the handcuffs tight enough to leave bruises.
Fisher and other RAID victims are American citizens, but they have always been detained for hours.
“I want answers. I have children, I have grandchildren, and if I had (gotten) killed, who will answer for that? Person, ”said Fisher, 54.
The raid was the Last in a series of aggressive tactics by the federal government in the operation of the Trump administration “Midway Blitz”. Continuous raids in the Chicago region have angry local elected officials, including American representatives Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Delia Ramirez, Robin Kelly and Jonathan Jackson, who now call at the end of all raids and the federal immigration application in the Chicago region.
The reinforced resident Fisher says she wants answers. “I have children, I have grandchildren, and if I had (goten) killed, who will answer for that?”
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During a Sunday press conference, the members of the Congress spoke alongside activists and residents affected by the raids. They urged unity and cooperation between black residents and immigrants. Many residents detained by the southern shore building are black.
“This is part of what has become and will be one of the most shameful periods in American history. But it is not too late to wake up and overthrow it,” said Garcia. “These are not just immigrants. It is a question of controlling each of our communities, black, brown, poor, working class. ”
The border patrol, the FBI and the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosive weapons arrested 37 people in the raid, including some who “are considered to be involved in drug trafficking and distribution, arms crimes and immigration violers”, according to the Ministry of Internal Security.
The American representative Jesus “Chuy” Garcia addresses a press conference on the South Coast on Sunday. He sees the application of immigration interrupted in Chicago in the last month, as also targeting black, brown and working class.
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On Sunday, large plywood slabs covered the doors with several building units at 7,500 S. South Shore Drive. The broken glass was lying on the floor outside the building near the broken windows. A cardboard panel reading “The fascists who made these names and addresses” were published on a fence outside.
Representatives are trying to connect families displaced to mutual aid groups and legal and immigration resources, said Ramirez.
Resident Markus Bracey was not detained, but he said he saw agents hold his neighbors. Bracey and nearly 30 other people continue to live in the building, he said.
The federal agents “came from the roof, they came from the bottom and they rushed so that they could not run away,” he said.
“The helicopter was on the roof. Each floor looks like this, or worse,” he said, making a gesture to units on board.
Ramirez and other members of the House of Representatives of Internal Security and Judicial Committees are trying to identify “more responsibility measures” following the RAID on the southern shore and other combative operations of the application of immigration. She declared that representatives are considering legislative action and possible disputes linked to the raid.
The American representative Delia Ramirez speaks to journalists at a press conference outside an apartments complex that the federal police recently attacked during Operation Midway Blitz, located at 7500 S. South Shore Dr; In the Côte-Sud district, Sunday October 5, 2025. Tyler Pasciak Lariviere / Sun-Totes
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“Everyone has to ask themselves:” What are the ways in which I can support people at the moment? ” And that is not alike, ”said Ramirez. “But one thing we are clear on is that these ice agents have been embraced to cover their faces. They can certainly do whatever they want with impunity.”
Search for meeting with the ice chief
Ana Guajardo, a community activist who works with immigrants, was at the press conference to put pressure for the release of Laura Morillo, a mother of two who was owned by ice as she sells tamals outside a Home Depot store. She is currently detained in El Paso, Texas, said Guajardo, leaving her 18 -year -old Gennesis daughter to take care of her younger sister.
“Laura was not a criminal,” said Guajardo. “She was an entrepreneur, worker, mother. She nourished her children by sweat and tears working in this country for many years. ”
“This is the message:” Free Laura, “she said.
A search for Morillo in the judicial archives of the County Cook made no result.
Ramirez and Us Sens.dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth asked for a meeting with the director of the immigration field office and customs Russell Hott to discuss the monitoring of the BroadView treatment installation which has become a detention center and the center of anti-ice protests. Hott postponed the meeting, said Ramirez.
Genesis, 18, is the daughter of a tamale seller who was arrested at the end of September at the rear of the construction sites. Her mother, Laura Morillo, is owned in a detention center in El Paso, Texas, while Genesis takes care of his younger sister.
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“We expect the meeting to happen as soon as possible, whether the government is closed or not,” she said.
Ice did not immediately respond to requests for comments on the meeting.
Also Sunday, dozens of city leaders signed a letter in support of the ALD. Jessie Fuentes, who was handcuffed and briefly detained at the Humboldt Park Hospital. The video shows Fuentes asking the police a judicial mandate signed for a man detained in the hospital before an agent forces his hands behind his back and handcuffs.
“Displaying a mandate before detention is not optional; it is a cornerstone of constitutional law,” said the letter. It was signed by 37 members of the Municipal Council and the mayor Brandon Johnson, the city clerk Anna Valencia and the treasurer of the city Melissa Conyers-Nervin. “And yet, ice agents continue to ignore this requirement.”
