Read our editorial on mass deportations here, and the ongoing struggle against it here.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) continue the U.S. imperialists’ brutal mass deportation campaign in response to the economic crisis of overproduction, workers and masses across the country continue to resist.
On November 4 in Los Angeles, ICE agents abducted a father from his car while his one-year-old daughter was in the back seat. After ripping the man from his car, ICE agents forced him into an unmarked vehicle as outraged residents yelled at the agents. Rifles drawn, ICE agents entered and drove the man’s car to an undisclosed location with his daughter still inside.
On November 8 in Chicago, CBP carried out a series of operations in the Little Village neighborhood that were met with residents’ resistance. After Border Patrol abducted a woman, residents gathered to demand her release. In response, “[CBP] came out of their vehicles pointing weapons and they used tear gas on people,” according to a resident interviewed by monopoly news outlet ABC7.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims residents threw bricks and paint cans at agents, and two people rammed cars into Border Patrol vehicles. Protesters pursued Border Patrol throughout the city until Chicago Police suppressed protesters at an FBI station and helped Border Patrol escape.
The naked collaboration between the CPD and DHS despite Chicago being a “sanctuary city” shows the farcical nature of the Democratic mafia and liberal “opposition” to federal abductions.
These same Border Patrol agents then drove to a Sam’s Club parking lot and attacked a family with a chemical weapon, hospitalizing the father and his daughter. According to DHS, residents followed Border Patrol into the parking lot, and one person rammed their car into a Border Patrol vehicle. After the Border Patrol convoy exited the parking lot, one Border Patrol vehicle’s window was broken while a resident rammed yet another car into a second Border Patrol vehicle.
Later that afternoon, other Border Patrol agents tried and failed to abduct a man and his eleven-year-old niece in Little Village, inciting opposition from residents who stopped the abduction.
Photo: Border Patrol vehicle rammed in Chicago.
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