Midway Blitz Is Over, But ICE Is Still Quietly Targeting Chicago Immigrants — Especially At Court
Arrests are ticking back up, with immigrants targeted at hearings and in courthouses, although federal agents are far less present in the streets than they were in the fall.
by Francia Garcia Hernandez and Charles Thrush
CHICAGO – Dario Quevedo Marquez, a Venezuelan immigrant, went to a South Side courthouse last week for a hearing over a misdemeanor battery charge.
But on April 15, as Quevedo Marquez left the Branch 35 & 38 courthouse, 727 E. 111th St., federal immigrant agents arrested him. His wife, Daymelis Martinez, said she tried to ask agents in Spanish why they were taking him.
An agent told Martinez to stay quiet or she’d be arrested, too, she said. She could not risk being separated from their children — ages 15, 12 and 11 — as they go through their asylum proceedings and seek to build a life in Chicago, she said.
“They’d be alone. We don’t have anyone here,” Martinez said.
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