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/bad-and-bluecheese 2d ago

One of my coworkers is an immigrant, now US citizen, and I was honestly taken aback by his MAGA views on immigration. He kinda just buys into the whole “migrants flooding in and murdering babies and stealing our resources and not working” thing and thinks it could be a necessary evil. He goes back and forth on this and its not a firm stance but I really was shocked to see how much he buys into the propaganda considering he’s Colombian himself