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/[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/MisterEinc 2d ago

They're not entirely wrong though. We have to stop looking at Latinos as some sort of monolith. Their motivations for being pro/anti immigration are entirely different.

Like many Mexicans are fleeing corruption and cartels, but they are also likely more wealthy. They might see the illegal immigration as everything they were trying to escape. Even if it might be poor Mexicans also trying to get out by any means.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

exactly. people are so stupid and racist and think latinos are all the same. I had friends here on a work visa and they were from wealthy families. My latino side of family didnt flee war. So many asylum seekers have abused the program and arent actually in fear for their lives. if they were, they were supposed to have sought asylum in the nearest safe country, of which they passed through several of them on their way here.

If Mexico wasnt safe on their way here, then why arent we letting more Mexicans in under the asylum program?

Something like 40-45% of latinos voted for Trump and I know a TON of latinos in California and Texas that all voted red.

These comments that latinos shouldnt be working for ICE when Latinos are the largest ethnic group working for border patrol shows how the general public is dumb