Disasters, Invisible and Visible Highlight
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— Dan SinkerThere's a different type of invisible disaster unfolding across Chicago now. ICE and Border Patrol agents have been terrorizing immigrant communities across the massive geographic expanse that is the greater Chicago area. Instead of focusing on the city proper (though certainly they've been there as well), they seem to be concentrating on border suburbs, especially on the southwest side, though they've ranged as far north as Waukegan and as far south as Joliet, two cities 75 miles apart from each other. The raids are often pre-dawn and lightning-fast, agents gone within minutes, though that's not always the pattern. A traffic stop by ICE in the light of day in northwest suburban Franklin Park left a dad, who had just dropped his kids off at school, dead two weeks ago.
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