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"CHICAGO (
AP) — Baltazar Enriquez starts most mornings with street patrols,
leaving his home in Chicago’s Little Village on foot or by car to find
immigration agents that have repeatedly targeted his largely Mexican
neighborhood.
Wearing an orange whistle around his neck, the activist broadcasts his plans on
Facebook.
“We don’t know if they’re going to come back. All we know is we’ve got to get
ready,” he tells thousands of followers. “Give us any tips if you see any
suspicious cars.”
Moments later, his phone buzzes.
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing
number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist
and aggressive overreach of the federal government. The Democratic stronghold’s
response has tapped established activists and everyday residents from wealthy
suburbs to working class neighborhoods.
They say their efforts — community patrols, rapid responders, school escorts,
vendor buyouts, honking horns and blowing whistles — are a uniquely Chicago
response that other cities President Donald Trump has targeted for federal
intervention want to model.
“The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is a bunch
of obscenities and ‘no,’” said Anna Zolkowski Sobor, whose North Side
neighborhood saw agents throw tear gas and tackle an elderly man. “We are all
Chicagoans who deserve to be here. Leave us alone.”"
Via Susan ****
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