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#Chicago's #children are getting caught in the chaos of #Trump’s #immigration crackdowns

The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.

“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” he repeated, clinging to her.

His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard “immigration raid.” Then: “tear gas.”

#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-trump-crackdown-school-children-c9a19835cac13c0fbbebcc9f4bf4f0a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Immigration+and+kids

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Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.

Nonilex

@[email protected] · last week

Suddenly, #TearGas canisters flew from the window of the SUV.

The cloud of gas rose, first white, then green, & the street exploded into pandemonium. Some people ran. Others shouted at agents to leave. Sirens screamed toward them. Parents blew through stop signs & drove on curbs to reach their #children.

#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

Nonilex

@[email protected] replied · last week

Kucich’s son was a half-block away, having lunch in the window of Luna y Cielo Play Cafe, where #children learn Spanish as they play with pretend food & toy cars. His nanny takes him there most days. He made his best friends at the cafe, & his little brother took his first steps there.

#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

Nonilex

@[email protected] · last week

#Children were playing on the monkey bars outside Funston Elementary School just before noon on Oct 3 when a white SUV rolled down their street in #LoganSquare, a historically Hispanic neighborhood that’s been steadily gentrifying for years. Cars followed, drivers laying on their horns to alert neighbors these were federal agents. A scooter pulled in front of the SUV, trying to block it in. There were no mass protests; some teachers walking to lunch initially didn’t realize what was happening.

Nonilex

@[email protected] replied · last week

Suddenly, #TearGas canisters flew from the window of the SUV.

#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

Nonilex

@[email protected] · last week

She abandoned her grocery cart & went as fast as she could to her toddler & his 14-month-old brother, who, on that warm October Friday, were among the hundreds of #Chicago #children caught suddenly in the turmoil of the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown.

#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

Nonilex

@[email protected] replied · last week

Parents, teachers & caregivers have been grappling ever since with how to explain to children what they’d seen: how much to tell them so they know enough to stay safe, but not too much to rob them of their childhood. A toddler shouldn’t know what a #TearGas canister is, Kucich said.

“I don’t know how to explain this to my kids.”

#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

Nonilex

@[email protected] · last week

#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

Nonilex

@[email protected] · last week

#Chicago's #children are getting caught in the chaos of #Trump’s #immigration crackdowns

The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.

“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” he repeated, clinging to her.

His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard “immigration raid.” Then: “tear gas.”

AP News

Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.