Dan Jones was jolted Awake Around 1 am Tuesday to the Sound of Federal Agents trying to break through his door. They Couldn’t Get Past His Double Lock, so he was back to bed.
But when he woke up hours late for work, he walked out and found Broken Dosering the Hallway – and his Neighbors Missing.
Jones, 27, is Among the Residents Left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive Who are trying to piece together what remeins after an early morning, High-Powered Federal Immigration Raid LED to the arrests of their neighbors at their south shore building.
Armed Federal Agents in Military Fatigues Busted Down Their Dos Overnight, Pulling Men, Women and Children from their apartments, some of them naked, Residents and Witnesses Said. AGENTS APPROAChed or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and US Citizens were Among Those Detained for Hours.
Be he got home from work, Jones Said he entered his unit to find all of his his electronics and supply missing, and all of his cloths and shoes thrown on the floor. Jones Said He Had No Idea Who Took His Belongings and Hadn’t Received Answers from Chicago Police.
“I’m Pissed off,” Jones Said. “I Feel Defeated Because the Authorities Aren’t Doing Anyding.”
On wednesday, toys, shoes and food were still in piles in the Building’s Hallways. Property Managers Were Seen Throwing Mattresses and Broken Doors into Dumpsters.
Personal Items and Thick in the Hallway at the apartment Building Where Ice Raeded and detail migrants During a Night Operation at 7500 South Shore Drive in South Shore on wednesday.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
The Department of Homeland Security Said Federal Agents with Border Patrol, The Fbi and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 People in the Raid. Dhs Said Some of Those Arrestted “Are Believed to Be Involved in Drug Trafficking and Distribution, Weapons Crimes and Immigration Violators.”
The Feds Also CLAIMED the South Shore Neighborhood was “a location know to be frequented by train de aragua members and their associates,” but gave no evidency to support the assertion, and authorities did not confirm any of the peoplies arrest of the venies.
Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of Mary Residents who were detail by federal agents during the south raid. A US Citizen, he Said Agents Broke Through his Door and Dragged Him Out in Zip Ties.
Johnson Said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let Him go.
“I Assents (Agents) Why They Were Holding with if I was an American Citizen, and They Said I Had to Wait Until They Look with Up,” Johnson Said. “I Asked if they have a warrant, and i asced for a lawyer. They Never Brought One.”
Video Lawn Near 75th Street and South Shore Drive Showed Federal Agents in Large Vehicles Gathered on the Street Near the Building. Some Wore US Border Patrol Uniforms. Others had fbi logos.
A Spokesperson for Chicago’s FBI FIELD OFFICE Confirmed the bureau was present to support A “Targeted Immigration Enforcement Operation” Carriad Out by Border Patrol.
The Raid Is One of the Larger Operations Executed SINCE President Donald Trump’s Administration Announce The Launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” on Sept. 8, Bringing a Federal Immigration Officers to the Chicago Area to Conduct Raids and Arrests.
A SIMILAR RAID WAS CARRIED OUT IN SUBURBAN ELGIN, WHENE LED BY US SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY Kristi Noem Rode in a Military Vehicle and Blew down the Front of a Home Where Detained Six People, Including Two US Citizens.
In the south shore raid, neighbors said federal agents used to be burns to Through the Building and Several Drones and Helicopters Were Deployed.
Ebony Sweets Watson, Who Lives ACROSS The Street, Said it “Look Like Hundreds” of Agents Were Outside Her Front Door.
Watson Said She Saw Agents Dragging Residents, Including Kids, Out of the Building With Any Clothes on and Into U-Haul Vans. Kids were separated from their motherors, she said.
“It was Heartbreaking to Watch,” Said Watson. “If you’f you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their motherors, it was horrible.”
Watson Said She Went into the Building to Help One of the Residents and Was Shocked by What She Saw.
“Stuff was everywhere,” Said Watson. “You couuld see People’s Birth Certificates, and Papers Thrown All Over. Water Leaking in Hallway. It was wicked Crazy.”
Jones, who lives on the fourth floor, said sis of his neighbors were venezuelan and offten took tourns cleaning the halway gcause the projeners did little to maintain it.
“They were cool People,” Jones Said as he was loked into HIS Next Neighbor’s Unit. “They didn’t speak a lick of English, but we used to translator apps to talk to each other.”
Jones wondered what would HAPPEN TO HIS Neighbor’s Young Children.
Jones and Johnson Said They Believed the Landld Kick Out the Remaining Residents from the Building, Which Public Records Had previously recipes. Owners of the Propperty Could Not Be Reached for Comment.
Brandon Lee, A Spokesman for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Said the Group was working to identify taken in the raid.
“It was a violent show of force in the middle of the Night,” Lee Said. “Taking families out of an apartment budilding in a residency neighBorhood like that is harmful, is traumatic, and that is not something people can easily recover from, where he was very taking or wheat.”
Editor’s Note: This Article was updated to correctly attribute a quote to rodrick Johnson.
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