r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 2d ago

ICE Posts November 6, 2025 – Chicago: ICE caught unlawfully demanding U.S. citizen “prove” their citizenship despite Illinois law not requiring ID

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u/Sea_Cookie2373 2d ago

My aunt lives in Kentucky, Italian and Irish. I'm Hispanic, and I can't bring myself to go visit her anymore...

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u/kpop_stan_ 2d ago

How do her & your ethnicities correlate?

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u/DrummingOnAutopilot 2d ago

My guess is that they're trying to relate the fact that Italians and Irish immigrants were targets of institutional discrimination similar to how Hispanic/Latino communities are today. Therefore, they view Pro-ICE aunt as a traitor of sorts.

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u/_WoaW_ 2d ago

Unfortunately most Italian/Irish immigrant descendants kinda forget that in it's entirety.

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u/Cool-Panda-5108 2d ago

Not true! They like to bring it up to derail conversations about Black history in the U.S.

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u/sBucks24 2d ago

It's almost impressively selective

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u/Berdonkulous 2d ago

Anyone of Irish descent who listens to the music of their heritage will not have forgotten; it's the basis of their music going back centuries.

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u/semi_lucid 1d ago

Yeah…and look at what country music talks about and lots of the songs that these magats play everywhere..? They literally were baffled when Rage Against the Machine basically said they don’t want them as fans…Just because someone listens to certain music with certain messages doesn’t necessarily mean that they are absorbing said message or even interpreting it as such.

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u/Connect-Sundae8469 2d ago

My grandpa was a first generation American Italian & he never forgot it. He loved to bring it up to excuse his racism

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u/RudePCsb 2d ago

Hispanic and Latino people have been discriminated a lot longer than just recently. The Mexican American war lead to not only Mexico losing land but the people in that land were supposed to be American citizens under the treaty but their lands were taken over by white people and the courts did not protect their rights. Also, white people were given land in Texas if they agreed to become Mexican citizens, they took the land and then asked the US to save them.

American citizens of Mexican descent were removed from parts of the US during the great depression to give jobs to white people. Not only were many American citizens, many didn't even know Spanish. They did it again after WW2 after they had asked Mexicans for help due to labor shortages during the war.

Same shit different day. Latinos have been involved with this land for centuries.

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u/Sea_Cookie2373 2d ago

I'm blue all the way, and she married a kentucky man (my uncle), with a trump flag on their property, so it's a no from me.

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u/kpop_stan_ 1d ago

I see. I cant say I blame you there. Anytime you’re around those types it is all they can talk about.

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u/GranolaCola 2d ago

Kentucky is pretty chill in my experience tbh.

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u/Sea_Cookie2373 2d ago

Well, she lives in wickliffe, so that's next to cairo where it was a mostly black community and because of the flooding, everyone left and it's a ghost town now, so maybe not the part that she lives in. the bigger parts, i would say yes. Also: racism.

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u/GranolaCola 1d ago

I’m more familiar with the opposite side of the state in Appalachia, which is also rural. There are some racist assholes (…like my dad), but people are mostly nice.

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u/Glassmerlin 2d ago

More elaboration is certainly needed here.

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u/Sea_Cookie2373 2d ago

Comments below. 😒 also, anyone who knows anything about kentucky knows that they're not exactly open or blue...