the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Sep 29, 2025
On September 16, Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem came to the Chicago suburb of Elgin for the biggest spectacle of “Operation Midway Blitz.” Agents blocked off streets with military vehicles, sent in low-flying helicopters and dropped smoke bombs before breaking down the door of a suburban house at 5:30 a.m. and grabbing the six people living there. Noem bragged that the raid had taken “violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI and felony stalking.”
In fact, one of those paraded in handcuffs for Noem’s cameras was a U.S. citizen, and the others were low wage workers sharing the rent on a house.
This raid was par for the course for the entirety of this highly-publicized assault on immigrants in the Chicago area, which is supposedly targeting “the worst of the worst.”
They’ve set up traffic stops in immigrant suburbs—during one of which they killed a cook, Silverio Villegas González, and then lied about it. They claimed he had severely injured and dragged an agent with his car, but bodycam video later showed the agent standing with a scratch on his leg, saying the injury was “no big deal.” ICE claimed Villegas González had a record of “reckless driving”—which amounted to one speeding ticket in the last 15 years!
Of the 550 “criminals” Homeland Security says have been taken into custody in all these raids, the Chicago Sun Times could identify only one who was convicted of murder—and he had already spent decades in jail. About half—with their names released on a list next to their supposed crimes—did not appear on any court records the newspaper’s reporters could find.