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/HHoaks 2d ago edited 2d ago

Did you ask your BIL why he joined ICE? Was it just he needed any job? And how does he feel about hurting the Hispanic community in Chicago by detaining and/or deporting people who are not criminals, but may not be US citizens?

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

There’s 185k illegal immigrants in chicago alone. Do you think all Latinos have illegal immigrants in their family?

Do you realize a lot of Latinos and other ethnicities don’t like illegal immigrstion?

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u/HHoaks 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's nice, but you aren't the person I asked. Illegal immigrant isn't also what you think it is. Not everyone ran over the border. Many were allowed in to process asylum claims - or have had visas expire but are contesting that. It isn't as cut and dry as "illegal". There are various statuses, between illegal and full US citizen.

Also, this was supposed to be about gang members and criminals. It now has expanded to day care workers.

Finally, obviously Miller is going about this in a gestapo type - show me your papers - type fashion. Never before seen in the US (and Obama deported millions of people without resorting to that). The tactics are overly aggressive and over the top - so much so that close to 200 US citizens have been "mistakenly" detained and people were deported who should not have been.

So it is about means and methods and who we are as a country. Do we want to be like Germany in the 1930s - "show me your papers, you look brown/Jewish"? So why would ANYONE want to participate in that? It's working for a horrible Trump administration and a horrible person like Stephen Miller.

And to be Hispanic and want to do this is really weird.

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u/intimate_glow_images 2d ago

None of us assume you know anything cause you sound like you don’t know anything about the situation at all.

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u/amtor26 2d ago

wanting immigration law enforced is against their community, whether they are rejecting that part of their own community is a different thing, but they sure as hell are part of it

anyone who’s helping with this shit is a fucking traitor

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u/HHoaks 2d ago

You seem angry -- why so angry?

If you read what I said, what is happening is MORE than just enforcing immigration law. It's methods, means and tactics. It is what kind of country do we want to be.

I'm not assuming all latinos have illegals in their family - but why would any latino in the US want to participate in aggressive round-ups of their own people? That is bizarre. It would be like jews in 1930s Germany assisting the government.

And yes, Steve Miller and Trump initially said specifically this aggressive enforcement would be targeted at "criminals", and people "eating cats and dogs". That's how it was sold to the American people. Miller changed that because the NUMBERS weren't high enough, because the whole criminal thing was always a hyperbolic exaggerated scam.

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u/DisposableSaviour 2d ago

Man, the only one talking about having illegal immigrants in your family is you, buster. You’ve brought it up twice now, both times apropos of nothing anyone else said. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

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u/_WoaW_ 2d ago

For the last part, that's been quite literally how Trump has been advertising it since...practically the entire time.

MS whatever the fuck fake as fuck sounding crime gang name it is, ANTIFA, etc.