Amy Goodman
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"Zip-Tying Children": Outrage Grows in Chicago over Trump Immigration Crackdown
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As Chicago braces for a possible deployment of National Guard troops by President Trump, we speak with Ed Yohnka from the ACLU of Illinois about how the administration's ongoing immigration crackdown is putting communities at risk. For weeks, federal agents with ICE and other agencies have carried out violent immigration arrests across Chicago, including in a high-profile raid on a residential building in which many U.S. citizens were also detained. "There's no emergency," says Yohnka, who blames the administration for needlessly escalating tensions in Chicago, seemingly in search of excuses for more violence. "And when anybody protests, then that's seized upon by the administration as a claim for the need to bring in further forces," says Yohnka.
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