Chicago ICE crackdown’s first casualty, father of two, had built quiet life in US
When Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was 12 minutes late for his shift at Tom & Jerry’s Gyros, a diner on Chicago’s northwest side, his manager knew something was wrong.
The short-order cook always let someone know if he was running late, even by just five minutes. Earlier that morning, Villegas Gonzalez, 38, had been fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, shortly after dropping his children off at a school and daycare in the suburb of Franklin Park.
The agents were attempting to arrest him as part of a massive immigration sweep launched by US President Donald Trump. Villegas Gonzalez was the Chicago crackdown’s first casualty.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said, after the 12 September incident, that Villegas Gonzalez was “a criminal illegal alien” with “a history of reckless driving”, who steered his car at agents, causing one to fear for his life and fire his weapon, killing Villegas Gonzalez.
DHS told Reuters on Friday (local time) that it would conduct its own investigation into the incident, after the first agency that responded had finished its review.
Trump is ratcheting up his militarisation of the internal police force he is creating…
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” gives ICE unprecedented funds to ramp up mass deportation campaign
Overall, the Republican-led Congress set aside roughly $170 billion for immigration enforcement and border security efforts through the legislation, including $75 billion in extra funding for ICE, making it by far the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.
…he’s militarising ICE while goading Blue States into resisting him so he can send in Federal Troops…
…and he is now talking about the Insurrection Act…
Trump floats invoking the Insurrection Act
President Donald Trump said Monday that he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act “if it was necessary,” particularly if the courts or state and local officials delay his plans to deploy the National Guard.
…Trump has now given ICE so much money they are the largest Federal Police force in the country.
This is what a functioning secret police state looks like…
American Gulag – The brutal rollout of Trump’s police state.
An army of masked ICE agents snatching people when they show up to work, to church, to their child’s day care, to immigration court. A return of family separations. That deportation flight ASMR video the White House posted on X. Kristi Noem posing in front of tattooed detainees at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
When it comes to President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology. The GOP-controlled Congress poured tens of billions of dollars into ICE’s coffers and set off a feeding frenzy: States are lining up behind Florida to run their own detention centers, while administration-friendly contractors are busily pitching iris-scanning apps, logistics expertise, fleets of deportation-ready aircraft—sometimes without competing bids.
The new immigration dragnet is everywhere, rife with conflicts, and it’s only just begun.
…Could you imagine the upraor from the Right if a Democratic President had embarked upon sending armed troops to Republican States?
The hypocrisy is incredible.
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I am sick of hearing what the opposite party would think if they did the drastic things the right do when they are in power. Time the Dems and the left started using power when they have it instead of being so pathetic and incremental. In the case of Biden, Gaza. On him.
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