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
Oct 27, 2025
ICE and Border Patrol agents have continued to run rampant through the streets of Chicago, detaining working people and causing mayhem.
For two days in a row, the Border Patrol invaded Little Village and Cicero, the heart of the Mexican American community in Chicago. Last Wednesday, they detained seven people and caused a car crash in the bargain. Two of those arrested included staffers working for local alderman Mike Rodriguez, who had shown up to observe.
Thursday morning, the Border Patrol convoy showed up at the Discount Mall on the East side of the neighborhood. They had in mind to raid the mall and arrest people indiscriminately—but they hadn’t checked the schedule—the store was closed.
A crowd soon gathered to object to their presence. Agents arrested five people, including a security guard for the mall, and a student from Juarez High School; another Juarez student was brutalized on the spot, but released.
Greg Bovino, Border Patrol commander-at-large, was caught on camera throwing a tear gas canister into the crowd. He is the only federal agent who operates without a facemask—because of his role as the “celebrity face” of the operation.
ICE agents have branched out into more white, middle-class neighborhoods this week—detaining construction workers off a job in Lincoln Square and a comedy club manager in Lakeview and pulling people over at random in Wicker Park to ask about their citizenship.
As in Little Village, ICE raids there have been met with resistance. Six weeks into this raid campaign, many neighborhoods have set up “Rapid Response Networks;” activists have distributed thousands of whistles. They have set up “ICE patrols” for neighborhoods and schools. Parents at some elementary schools have organized “walking buses”—where they walk home together in groups for safety.
Recently, two teachers in Albany Park saw agents trying to detain a man. One filmed while the other loudly alerted neighbors, who gradually came out onto the street. The chased man got away. The neighbors gathered around the agents’ cars, some of them locked arms. The agents threw teargas to break them up, then drove off.
ICE and Border Patrol have continued their campaign of provocation and terrorism toward working people in Chicago. But hundreds of Chicagoans now are working in an organized way, to protect their neighborhoods and schools.