Overview
- Residents on Chicago’s South Side reported helicopters, loud blasts and masked agents using flash-bang devices during predawn raids, according to witnesses and ACLU Illinois.
- Physician-researcher Rohini J. Haar warned that flash-bang grenades are restricted by many police departments and can cause severe burns, hearing damage or death.
- Latino-owned businesses posted “raid-free” notices asserting no entry without a judicial warrant, with Illinois Workers in Action providing signs, trainings and a hotline (1-855-435-7693).
- U.S. Northern Command acknowledged National Guard personnel in Illinois to support ICE, while “Operation Midway Blitz” focuses on arrests of noncitizens with criminal records.
- Telemundo reported unannounced checks at secondhand stores with detainees transported by bus, and KRGV said some people in McAllen were released after showing U.S. birth certificates.