Originally published on https://chicagoantireport.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/20/a-guide-to-ice-infrastructure-in-chicago/
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Tag: ICE
Your Neighbors are Being Trained by and Working with ICE. Do Something About it.
Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.
This was originally written in mid-April but left unfinished. The awe-inspiring insurgency currently taking place in LA and the preceding pushes against the Feds in Minneapolis, Worcester, and other cities across the country have reminded me why I wrote this in the first place.
May their flames bellow unto us.
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With the surge of publicly recorded ICE arrests following Trump’s inauguration, videos have been posted to social media showing very odd behavior from the federal agents that have been arresting people.
A similar theme emerges—the pigs carrying out the arrest claim to be members of HSI (Homeland Security Investigations), a subset of ICE—while these raggedly dressed HSI ‘agents’ themselves look like they don’t have a clue what they’re doing.
My claim is that these HSI agents are in fact regular civilians that have underwent ICE’s civilian training programs, which have been up and running in the states since 2019 after its initial launch and testing in Puerto Rico. I examined three videos posted to Twitter/X since January, followed with a little investigating—from what I gather, all these arrests were carried out by amateur civilian HSI agents that almost certainly live in the same community as the people they are arresting. Continue reading “Your Neighbors are Being Trained by and Working with ICE. Do Something About it.”