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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · Nov 13

to introduce me and my work... my name is cam, and i'm a chicago-based investigative reporter. i've worked on anything and everything that comes across my desk and get to be nosy for a living. right now, i'm doing a one year fellowship focused on local investigative reporting with @nytimes.com

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 15h

well this is simply upsetting

cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 15h

it's fine it's whatever we didn't need anything else to worry about here in chicago anyway

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 16h

listen... as long as it gets them on base they can keep aiming for the legs

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

He banged his head against the wall, but he still could not think of a story.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 1d

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CHICAGO - Earlier today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted a raid in an O Hare Airport parking lot where rideshare drivers wait between trips to pick up travelers. These drivers are essential workers who keep our city accessible, ensuring travelers can get from point A to point B safely every single day. The Illinois Drivers Alliance releases the following statement:

We are deeply concerned that the drivers' due process rights were violated at O' Hare today. This is part of a broader pattern of attacks on immigrant families by an administration that continues to weaponize fear and division instead of investing in solutions that strengthen our communities. The Illinois Drivers Alliance rejects unconstitutional raids, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with all hard working immigrant drivers, families, and essential workers targeted by these unjust actions. Chicago is strongest when every worker - regardless of race, religion, or immigration status - is safe, respected, and living free from fear.
We are working diligently to gather more information and ensure that every person's constitutional rights were respected and protected throughout this disturbing incident.

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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 1d

If you see ICE agents, Illinois State Police, or Chicago or suburban police engaging in immigration enforcement or misconduct, file a complaint with COPA, Cook County, or the IL Inspector General and let us know. If you have video, here's how you can share it with us:

South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 7d

Have you witnessed ICE activity in Chicagoland, or seen CPD or other local law enforcement assisting federal agents or engaging in misconduct?

LET US KNOW.

Upload video directly at tinyurl.com/chicagojourn... or email us at [email protected]

HAVE YOU SEEN ICE?
¿HAS VISTO A ICE?
We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago who
are collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and
traffic stops conducted by federal agents.
Share video: tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists
Contact us: chicagojournalists@protonmail.com
We won’t share video publicly without your permission.
Share video / Enviar video
Somos un grupo de periodistas de distintos medios en Chicago
recopilando videos relacionados con el uso de la fuerza,
detenciones, controles de tráfico y retenes por agentes
federales en Chicago.
Enviar video: tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists
Contacto: chicagojournalists@protonmail.com
No compartiremos video públicamente sin permiso.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

they are so loud

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 2d

When my daughter's school went into lockdown over ICE reports yesterday, another local parent told me that volunteers were immediately on scene to offer support. (lockdown was quickly lifted, with no notable activity).

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 2d

It's really striking how many people in Chicago seem to be visibly engaged. As teenagers stream into school, speaking a mix of languages, I notice adults with their orange whistles strolling the neighborhood and scanning cars.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

Both sentiments from Jackson and Johnson aren't

too different from those expressed by a Black bystander in the viral video of the feds placing a Black man in a chokehold in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood: "Y'all supposed to be out here choking Mexicans," he said.

Jackson described the happiness he felt when he

first heard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was coming to Chicago. He said he felt that the migrants were "slowly taking over" South Shore and said the building eventually had majority immigrant occupants.

After the South Shore raid, Jackson said his feelings have changed because ICE "had mercy for nobody."

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

if they blow this i swear

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

ask yourself important questions, like "am i referring to a real place that actually exists" and "did the events i am describing happen there"

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a viral video reposted by a lot of news people nationally about an abduction at West Loop Elementary School, but there is no school with that name. The video seems to be of ICE detaining people near UIC yesterday. Details matter. We need to try to get them right before sharing.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

agree

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! And relatedly if you’re going to cover Chicago and you’re not from here, please get geographical details right. Names of places, names of schools, names of cities and neighborhoods. Do a basic google search!

cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

if you're a national outlet zooming in to cover immigration raids in chicago and you're only in broadview or elwood you're doing it wrong, just saying

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

like this. (h/t, @unraveledpress.com, as well as @icirr.bsky.social/SSIP)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Video is circulating of some significant spontaneous community resistance to ICE in Aurora, IL today. (Simultaneously—another video is circulating of feds chasing and tasing a man in Bolingbrook.)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Video is circulating of some significant spontaneous community resistance to ICE in Aurora, IL today. (Simultaneously—another video is circulating of feds chasing and tasing a man in Bolingbrook.)

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

broadview, elwood and great lakes are important components to the infrastructure that allows this system of snatch-and-grab detentions to operate.

but i promise if you take a twenty minute drive down the interstate, you'll see what they're actually doing every day to people with minimal oversight

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

i'm watching in real time across facebook groups, texts from family and updates from SSIP as HSI posts up in my hometown and the areas where i grew up in the southwest suburbs, which have a large immigrant population. people are disappearing off the street and there is legitimately minimal coverage.

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