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cab67

(3,568 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:31 PM Oct 31

ICE is all over the neighborhood right now. UPDATED

Last edited Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Some of the schools are in lockdown, or so I'm told.

My daughter is already terrified of ICE. Now, the ICE f**kers are expanding their raids on Halloween.

The neighborhood association here is actively discussing alternatives to standard trick-or-treating.

F**king inexcusable.


Update - I just ran into a neighbor who was walking back from a nearby school. She was wearing a whistle around her neck, and she was one of the parents who volunteered to assist with dismissal at the school. It's an elementary school, but ICE dirtbags were seen nearby.

I suppose it's heartening to see the community come together to resist what's going on.

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ICE is all over the neighborhood right now. UPDATED (Original Post) cab67 Oct 31 OP
Are you in the Chicago area? Chasstev365 Oct 31 #1
yes cab67 Oct 31 #4
:( elleng Oct 31 #2
Maybe keep the kids at home but have a massive adult turnout for a street party..a few streets Deuxcents Oct 31 #3
Not sure what's being planned. cab67 Oct 31 #6
Your community knows best but I'd hate to see ICE have any victories over any of us.. Deuxcents Oct 31 #7
update... cab67 Oct 31 #8
I'm not in Chicago, so my understanding and passion is colored by that... slightlv Oct 31 #12
Trump hates Americans. ananda Oct 31 #22
IMO, you've hit the nail on the head! n/t slightlv Oct 31 #29
...and tried to hold Trump accountable. pandr32 Nov 1 #46
Absolutely. Do not think there is anything else going on except pleasing Putin. Walleye Nov 3 #51
I guess that 's a double whammy for him. ananda Nov 3 #53
There will always be greedy people, we are failing as a democracy because Walleye Nov 3 #54
While critical thinking is an issue, I worry more about... ananda Nov 3 #57
Even when TSF is gone, his "work" will carry on. TSF is only the face of evil, the front man. wnylib Nov 1 #48
ICE probably think they can grab some people who are taking their kids trick or treating. tblue37 Oct 31 #42
It's called DOMESTIC TERRORISM. And Trump/ICE B.See Oct 31 #5
ICE are the terrorists. They can all fuck off. Initech Oct 31 #9
No shit popsdenver Oct 31 #19
It was never about gang members. Initech Oct 31 #23
Someone on NextDoor said (a few days ago) ICE was at a nearby hospital, and blocking the exits. C Moon Oct 31 #10
A hospital near LA had a couple of ICE vehicles towed. cab67 Oct 31 #18
If I owned a tow truck, I'd consider moving a few Ilsa Oct 31 #27
What neighborhood? ICE is all over Evanston too right now. ChicagoTeamster Oct 31 #11
Evanston? PatSeg Oct 31 #17
Evanston is diverse by choice sab390 Oct 31 #21
I lived in Evanston many years ago for a short time PatSeg Oct 31 #25
A coworker said they were in front of the nursing home she was at in Evanston a few hours ago mucifer Oct 31 #28
It just totally offends me that they're terrorizing children slightlv Oct 31 #13
Post removed Post removed Oct 31 #36
Put down the meth pipe and back away slowly. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 31 #37
Link?! sheshe2 Oct 31 #38
I"m sorry, I didn't grab the link, slightlv Oct 31 #39
I am so sorry for the misunderstanding, slighlv. sheshe2 Oct 31 #40
How do these agents live with themselves? LisaM Oct 31 #14
Chicken Shits popsdenver Oct 31 #20
Send All GOP politicians, his cabinet, Trump & every family member except Mary and All ICE agents to the MOON Trueblue1968 Oct 31 #24
Trump popsdenver Oct 31 #31
The Good German reappears after about 85 years Torchlight Nov 3 #55
I absolutely cannot believe this is happening in our country Grim Chieftain Oct 31 #15
Are they ICE or Border Patrol? Heard two interviews this a.m. on MSNBC that the allegorical oracle Oct 31 #16
Please name the neighborhood...it doesn't ID you, but could help others Prairie Gates Oct 31 #26
Evanston cab67 Oct 31 #33
Biss and Schakowsky out there making a fuss for sure Prairie Gates Oct 31 #41
K&R UTUSN Oct 31 #30
The republican American Gestapo must meet quotas. republianmushroom Oct 31 #32
this particular uptick is probably unrelated to quotas. cab67 Oct 31 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author tblue37 Oct 31 #43
Stephen Miller set the 3000/day quota, and he screams at them for not meeting it. tblue37 Oct 31 #44
agreed. cab67 Nov 1 #47
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 31 #35
My thoughts: surfered Nov 1 #45
Fuck ICE. Fuck Kristi Noem. Fuck Tom Homan. Fuck the Heritage Foundation. Initech Nov 3 #49
ICE PRICKS madibella Nov 3 #50
In all seriousness, if you see someone kidnapping a child off the street, extreme violent resistance is justified. Jim__ Nov 3 #52
I m SOOOO glad that something like that wouldn't happen here DFW Nov 3 #56

cab67

(3,568 posts)
4. yes
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:35 PM
Oct 31

I'm only here on weekends when classes are in session, but I came back early to help with Halloween.

Deuxcents

(25,219 posts)
3. Maybe keep the kids at home but have a massive adult turnout for a street party..a few streets
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:34 PM
Oct 31

cab67

(3,568 posts)
6. Not sure what's being planned.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:39 PM
Oct 31

Personally, I think having a lot of adults out with the kids might dissuade ICE from trying anything. But then, maybe it won't.

There was an accident near here involving an ICE vehicle and a resident's car. The agents evidently arrested someone in the car.


https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/31/ice-detains-one-person-near-oakton-and-sherman-friday-morning/

Deuxcents

(25,219 posts)
7. Your community knows best but I'd hate to see ICE have any victories over any of us..
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:45 PM
Oct 31

There’s more of us than there are of them but we’re not the ones with combat military capabilities on our streets with helicopters hovering overhead. I’m having a hard time believing this nightmare is real

cab67

(3,568 posts)
8. update...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:09 PM
Oct 31

The municipal government has issued an advisory for parents on trick or treating.

I suspect my neighborhood will still hold festivities.

slightlv

(7,283 posts)
12. I'm not in Chicago, so my understanding and passion is colored by that...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:19 PM
Oct 31

but the fact we have to "put up" with them violating our rights, terrifying our kids, brutalizing seniors and treating nobody with the human dignity they deserve just because they're human... it's offensive to any thinking, caring individual. And no matter what trump and his police goons (of any stripe) try, they are NEVER going to make the whole country turn on each other. Yet, that's what they're trying to do. Turn us against each other... turn us against authorities (when so many of us have bad feelings about them to start), so he can declare martial law under the insurrection act and cancel elections... thereby ascending a king's throne that isn't there with full rights of life and death over anyone and everyone. And yet, we're helpless to fight back. It offends the sense of fairness, of justice, of right and wrong. And he's pushing it until... if he doesn't die soon (or otherwise be de-throned), he's gonna get just what he wants. Civil war in this country. And then, the Ace of Spades on THIS deck of hoodlums will be he, himself.

ananda

(34,244 posts)
22. Trump hates Americans.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:21 PM
Oct 31

This term is his demented revenge tour
across America, to destroy everything in
his wake if possible...

just because we elected Biden in 2020.

pandr32

(13,719 posts)
46. ...and tried to hold Trump accountable.
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 12:18 PM
Nov 1

He blames us all for him having a rap-sheet. How dare we!

ananda

(34,244 posts)
53. I guess that 's a double whammy for him.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 01:27 PM
Nov 3

That he found so many handlers and enablers
is kind of amazing to me.

The amount and level of hate in this country
shouldn't be surprising to me, but I still find
myself surprised at it.

I think it's the freedom to express it that
shows it up that way.

Walleye

(43,618 posts)
54. There will always be greedy people, we are failing as a democracy because
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 01:46 PM
Nov 3

Most of our population is not capable of critical thinking. Seems like they will fall for anything.

ananda

(34,244 posts)
57. While critical thinking is an issue, I worry more about...
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 03:52 PM
Nov 3

the total lack of morality and empathy in our
Republicans these days.

It represents a total loss of humanity and
endangers all of us, bar none.

wnylib

(25,355 posts)
48. Even when TSF is gone, his "work" will carry on. TSF is only the face of evil, the front man.
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 01:27 PM
Nov 1

He is not intelligent enough to mastermind what goes on. That is done by others who will continue trying to run the show without him.

However, without TSF's twisted charisma, it will be harder for them to keep people willingly on board with them. They will resort quickly to harsh military rule.



tblue37

(68,018 posts)
42. ICE probably think they can grab some people who are taking their kids trick or treating.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:00 PM
Oct 31

popsdenver

(1,369 posts)
19. No shit
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:06 PM
Oct 31

going after children is despicable........still trying to entice adults to go after them for Trump's insurrection act........

Initech

(107,161 posts)
23. It was never about gang members.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:28 PM
Oct 31

Anyone who voted for this fucking psychopath can go straight to hell.

C Moon

(13,401 posts)
10. Someone on NextDoor said (a few days ago) ICE was at a nearby hospital, and blocking the exits.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:06 PM
Oct 31

Didn't look into it, but that would be nuts.

cab67

(3,568 posts)
18. A hospital near LA had a couple of ICE vehicles towed.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:03 PM
Oct 31

There’s video on YouTube. The vehicles were illegally parked.

Ilsa

(63,737 posts)
27. If I owned a tow truck, I'd consider moving a few
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:14 PM
Oct 31

of their vehicles. You know, make them walk another quarter mile from where they parked.

ChicagoTeamster

(339 posts)
11. What neighborhood? ICE is all over Evanston too right now.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:17 PM
Oct 31

They've been on the North and South sides closer to the lake but also in the near suburbs. They supposedly even raided an Aldi.

sab390

(213 posts)
21. Evanston is diverse by choice
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:16 PM
Oct 31

They have long tried to have moderate housing. It is quite wealthy but it just goes to show people can live together.

PatSeg

(51,801 posts)
25. I lived in Evanston many years ago for a short time
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:09 PM
Oct 31

It was one my favorite places to live. I just can't picture ICE storming through the streets.

mucifer

(25,480 posts)
28. A coworker said they were in front of the nursing home she was at in Evanston a few hours ago
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:15 PM
Oct 31

Tear gas in front of a nursing home.

slightlv

(7,283 posts)
13. It just totally offends me that they're terrorizing children
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:20 PM
Oct 31

on a night made for childhood fun. Where is the Candyman when you need him?!

Response to slightlv (Reply #13)

slightlv

(7,283 posts)
39. I"m sorry, I didn't grab the link,
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 09:52 PM
Oct 31

but in the story they talked about the storm troopers doing in both in Chicago and in LA. Since Yahoo and Google news comes up automatically with my start page, I'd be comfortable saying it was one of them. Although both of them are nothing more than aggregators, so I apologize once again.

sheshe2

(95,389 posts)
40. I am so sorry for the misunderstanding, slighlv.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 10:04 PM
Oct 31

I was responding to the post that was hidden by a troll that has been shown the door. She pops up frequently, actually she is here multiple times daily and has been for years. I was just having some fun with them.

LisaM

(29,461 posts)
14. How do these agents live with themselves?
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:24 PM
Oct 31

Don't any of them have kids of their own? I predict that when this is all over, many of them will suffer lifelong PTSD and there will be a rash of suicides, another byproduct of this sad chapter.

popsdenver

(1,369 posts)
20. Chicken Shits
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:09 PM
Oct 31

Gather them all up, put them on military aircraft, give them chutes and drop them into some war zone and see how they all do against people who shoot back......

Trueblue1968

(19,020 posts)
24. Send All GOP politicians, his cabinet, Trump & every family member except Mary and All ICE agents to the MOON
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:38 PM
Oct 31

Build a huge HUGE mansion with food to last 100 years and every modern goodie they would need. 1 way trip !!!!!


DonOLD Rump can be king of the moon.

popsdenver

(1,369 posts)
31. Trump
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 07:20 PM
Oct 31

his spawn, Jared, the Republican Senators, Republican House members and the Republican Supreme Court Justices should get their individual cells at Colorado Supermax.......(they spend 23 hrs a day alone, in their TOTALLY concrete cells. Concrete stool, concrete bed with a pad, tiny concrete table, and a combination stainless steel toilet/sink........ Their meals are served through a slot in the door, the cell is insulated so there is NO ability to communicate with other prisoners, no yells back and forth between their cells. Absolutely NO emails, cell phones, texting...NO communication at all with the outside world. I don't think they are even allowed a tv or radio, NO view from the window except upwards at the sky. Visitors once a month, supervised? and only their attorney can visit them with time/date reserved way in advance.
It is worse than the death penalty, prisoners have said.......Alone, in total isolation, for the rest of their lives, left to rot in their cell until that happens.
The two guards aren't allowed to speak with them when they chain them up for their trip to the shower and tiny exercise yard for an hour each day......
The small exercise yard is inside with really tall concrete walls and with a roof? so they can't even see the sky .........

They guy that bombed the federal building killing a 100+ Men, Women, and Children was sentenced there instead of the death penalty. After six months in Colorado Super Max, he was begging the court for the Death Penalty, which they granted....He was shown that Super Max was far far worse than death........

Torchlight

(6,261 posts)
55. The Good German reappears after about 85 years
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 02:03 PM
Nov 3

The only viable method I can see is these guys are hungry to be told what to do, what to believe, and what to think if it all validates their own inner "it's THEIR (insert minority of choice here) fault my life's not as good as should be. They're too equal..."

Grim Chieftain

(1,073 posts)
15. I absolutely cannot believe this is happening in our country
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:26 PM
Oct 31

Good grief, if it's this bad now, imagine what it will be like in three more years.


allegorical oracle

(6,116 posts)
16. Are they ICE or Border Patrol? Heard two interviews this a.m. on MSNBC that the
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:36 PM
Oct 31

Border Patrol is much rougher on the people they go after because their training is intended for protecting the border, while ICE training is geared for handling immigration issues that aren't on the border. (That either one is plaguing U. S. residents is infuriating.)

Prairie Gates

(7,047 posts)
26. Please name the neighborhood...it doesn't ID you, but could help others
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:12 PM
Oct 31

Some of us have teens going out for Halloween.

cab67

(3,568 posts)
34. this particular uptick is probably unrelated to quotas.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:18 PM
Oct 31

It's happening specifically to express cruelty.

Response to republianmushroom (Reply #32)

cab67

(3,568 posts)
47. agreed.
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 01:19 PM
Nov 1

But the timing of this particular push suggests a different motivation - specifically, to punish blue congressional districts for being blue by disrupting Halloween.

Response to cab67 (Original post)

Initech

(107,161 posts)
49. Fuck ICE. Fuck Kristi Noem. Fuck Tom Homan. Fuck the Heritage Foundation.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:45 AM
Nov 3

May they all rot in hell.

Jim__

(15,053 posts)
52. In all seriousness, if you see someone kidnapping a child off the street, extreme violent resistance is justified.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 12:30 PM
Nov 3

Last edited Mon Nov 3, 2025, 02:36 PM - Edit history (1)

DFW

(59,635 posts)
56. I m SOOOO glad that something like that wouldn't happen here
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 02:59 PM
Nov 3

It DID happen here, but that was 80 years ago, and the whole country was bombed flat for it.

These days, if ICE were to show up in its present form, they would be arrested immediately, and any of them found to be armed would get an automatic 5 year minimum sentence (that's the law here for any and all offenses committed with a firearm).

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