Overview
- The employee, an Indian-American U.S. citizen, was approached while working on the Busse Highway resurfacing project and questioned about his immigration status.
- According to the governor’s office, the agents also asked whether he had traveled to New York and about Zohran Mamdani before leaving the site.
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker condemned the stop as racial profiling and said state workers should not be targeted while performing their jobs.
- Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 kept students and staff indoors after reports of federal agents near several schools.
- The encounter comes during a stepped-up regional enforcement push that has included agent caravans, a daycare detention in Chicago, and ongoing court-imposed limits on DHS use-of-force and reporting.