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An appeals court over the weekend blocked President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, but allowed the troops to remain under federal control for now. CBS News Homeland Security correspondent Nicole Sganga breaks down the ruling.
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A federal appeals court Saturday blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area amid ongoing protests at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities that the Trump administration has vowed to crack down on. The court ruled, however, that the National Guard troops can remain under federal control.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling from U.S. District Judge April Perry earlier this week denying a request from the White House to deploy National Guard troops on the streets of Chicago in response to a lawsuit brought by the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago.
However, it granted a request from the Trump administration to temporarily keep those National Guard troops under federal control, issuing an administrative stay to Perry’s earlier ruling on the federalization issue.
CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment on the ruling.
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The Defense Department announced earlier this week that approximately 200 National Guard soldiers from Texas and another 300 from Illinois were federalized under Title 10 and sent to the Chicago area for a period of at least 60 days to “protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.”
The ICE processing facility in the Broadview suburb of Chicago has been the site of ongoing confrontations between protesters and law enforcement.
This comes amid a similar legal standoff in Portland, Oregon.
A Trump-appointed federal judge issued a temporary restraining order last weekend blocking the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard troops in Portland. A day later, the same judge blocked the deployment of any National Guard troops to Oregon from other states as the Pentagon said that it planned to send another 200 California National Guard troops to Portland.
On Wednesday, an appeals court temporarily granted a White House request that the 200 Oregon National Guard troops remain under federal control. However, the appellate court noted that National Guard troops are still prohibited from deploying to Portland while the case plays out.
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Approximately 500 National Guard soldiers from Texas and Illinois have been deployed in the Chicago area and mobilized to protect federal agents and facilities amid a legal battle over their deployment.
According to the U.S. Northern Command at the Department of Defense, approximately 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard and 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard have been “employed in the greater Chicago area.” Their mobilization will last for a period of at least 60 days.
“These forces will protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other U.S. government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property,” Northern Command said in a statement.
The troops have been stationed at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in southwest suburban Elwood, where new fencing has been installed since the Texas guard members first arrived on Tuesday. Crews also have installed privacy screens along the interior of the existing fence line.
Several trailers have been set up at the facility as temporary living quarters. Several soldiers were seen moving in with bags of belongings on Tuesday; some holding rifles and carrying folding chairs, possibly for meetings or other trainings.
Northern Command said as part of their duties to protect federal agents and facilities, the troops would be assigned to establish security perimeters, perform crowd control, and use de-escalation tactics. While soldiers would be allowed to temporarily detain people to prevent an assault or interference with federal agents, Northern Command said they will not be arresting protesters.
There were a handful of demonstrations outside the facility on Wednesday; a couple to protest against the arrival of Texas guard members, and a couple more to support them.
Illinois state leaders said they only got word late Monday night that the 200 Texas National Guard troops would be stationed at the Elwood base starting Tuesday.
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Richard Hayes was the highest-ranking member of the Illinois National Guard. In his 30-plus-year career, he said he’s never seen a National Guard from a different state federalized and then sent to another state.
“This is novel. It doesn’t mean it’s necessarily illegal, it’s just different,” he said. “As far as the soldiers are concerned, the Illinois National Guard, even the Texas National Guard, they don’t get a say in whether they go or not go. It’s not a political organization, they’re just here to do what they’re being asked to do.”
There has been little movement in or out of the training facility since the troops arrived, and CBS News Chicago legal analyst Irv Miller said he’s not surprised.
It remains in question whether the troops will be sent out on protection details, since the state of Illinois and city of Chicago have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard. Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson have argued there is no crisis requiring the troops’ presence in the Chicago area.
Federal judge April Perry scheduled a hearing for Thursday for arguments on a request for a temporary restraining order blocking the troop deployment. Perry declined to immediately issue that restraining order on Monday when the lawsuit was filed to give the federal government time to file briefs, which it did, minutes before the 11:59 p.m. CDT Wednesday deadline she set.
In the 59-page filing, the government argued that President Trump has the legal authority to deploy the troops and that state objections should not block the operation. The federal attorneys also argued that courts should be “highly deferential” when reviewing a president’s judgment in such matters in light of the authority they say the executive branch is given by the Constitution and statutes.
Miller said it’s likely leaders are waiting for the judge’s decision before making any moves.
“Oh, absolutely. I mean, the judge didn’t explicitly state that they couldn’t come into the city, but I think if you read between the lines as to what she was saying, that it probably would be a good idea if everybody waited until she made the decision on Thursday to decide what they’re going to actually do,” Miller said.
Miller said he expects the judge to grant the temporary restraining order prohibiting the deployment for now, but any decision will likely be appealed to a higher court.
A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Portland. That judge has ruled the relatively small protests outside Portland’s immigration processing facility didn’t justify the use of federalized forces and allowing the deployment could harm Oregon’s state sovereignty.
Since that ruling, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has called on U.S. Northern Command to demobilize the 200 Oregon National Guard troops and 200 California National Guard troops that the Trump administration had mobilized for Portland.
Mr. Trump has suggested, regardless of what happens in court, he might invoke the Insurrection Act “if it was necessary” to deploy troops to Portland and Chicago.
“If people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure I’d do that. I mean, I want to make sure that people aren’t killed,” he said earlier this week.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said the president invoking the Insurrection Act to justify a troop deployment “would be terrible.”
“It would be illegal and unconstitutional, because there is no basis in law for his invasion with these troops from Texas into the state of Illinois. He is not making life any better for our state, and he’s not making it any safer,” Durbin said.
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Portland, Oregon — Ongoing protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Portland, Oregon, have largely been contained to a single block in the downtown South Waterfront neighborhood, but the perception of Portland as unsafe has created ripple effects across this 135-square-mile city.
On one particular October day, Mother’s Bistro and Bar in downtown Portland was seeing more customers than usual, which is rare, according to longtime owner Lisa Schroeder.
“You know, we have our days where we’re busy, but it’s not like it used to be,” Schroeder told CBS News.
Schroeder says that since the 2020 pandemic and ensuing social justice protests emptied out downtown, business has gone from bad to worse.
Portland has recently been a focal point in President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to quell opposition to ICE activity in blue cities.
On Sept. 28, Mr. Trump announced he would be deploying federal troops to Portland in response to the protests at the South Waterfront ICE facility, describing the city in a social media post as “war-ravaged.” The Trump administration later confirmed it would be placing 200 Oregon National Guard troops under federal control for a period of 60 days.
Speaking to hundreds of generals and admirals on Sept. 30 at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia, Mr. Trump called Portland a “war zone.”
And on Oct. 5, he told reporters that “Portland is burning to the ground.”
“My business is half of what it was, but it’s certainly not going to get better by somebody telling the world that our city is war-ravaged,” Schroeder said.
On Saturday, in response to a lawsuit from the state of Oregon, a Trump-appointed federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard troops, and a day later, the same judge blocked the deployment of any National Guard troops to Oregon from other states as the Pentagon said that it planned to send another 200 California National Guard troops to Portland.
On Wednesday, an appeals court temporarily granted a White House request that the 200 Oregon National Guard troops remain under federal control. However, the appellate court noted that National Guard troops are still prohibited from deploying to Portland while the case plays out.
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Business owners have submitted legal declarations of support for the state’s lawsuit, saying the president’s rhetoric has been damaging.
Diners here feel it too.
“No, it’s not Portlanders,” one diner at Mothers Bistro and Bar said of the Rose City when asked if the city is a warzone. “It’s not who Portland is, and it’s not the 99.9% of who’s out there.”
Schroeder says that Portland has an “image problem.”
“I feel like Goliath is coming after David,” Schroeder said. “We’re a little city here, just trying to get by, trying to sort out our problems. And we don’t need the big cheese to come here…We are definitely in a state of recovery. We are not there.”
According to data from the Portland Police Bureau, total crime was down 19% in 2024 compared to 2022. But as the protests play out on the national stage, Schroeder says she is losing money.
“This does not help,” Schroeder said. “It does not help at all. We don’t need this. And certainly to spend our money on troops to come here for this…This is what our government is spending money on? It’s a shame, a crying shame. And I’m crying.”
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In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, President Trump said Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker “should be in jail.”
“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Officers!” Mr. Trump posted. “Governor Pritzker also!”
Pritzker issued a statement on X in response to President Trump’s post.
“I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?” Pritzker wrote.
Pritzker continued in a thread of X posts: “His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for ‘how they look.’ Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions.”
Mayor Johnson also posted to X.
“This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested,” he wrote. “I’m not going anywhere.”
Arrests, raids and protests have become daily occurrences as the presence of ICE in Chicago has drastically increased since the Department of Homeland Security launched what it dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz” at the beginning of September.
On Tuesday, Mayor Johnson signed an executive order prohibiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies from using city property for civil immigration enforcement.
The order prohibits federal authorities from using city-owned or controlled parking lots, vacant lots and garages as staging areas, processing locations or operations bases for civil immigration enforcement activity.
Meanwhile, Pritzker has taken Mr. Trump to task repeatedly for his use of federal forces, and most recently for deploying National Guard troops to Illinois. The deployment comes amid clashes between demonstrators and federal agents outside an ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, where, within the past couple of weeks, over a dozen protesters were arrested.
On Tuesday night, Pritzker also denounced federal immigration enforcement in Chicago.
“It is striking fear in the hearts of everybody in Chicago, and we have residents — this isn’t just about undocumented people,” Pritzker said Tuesday night during a discussion in Minnesota with that state’s governor, Tim Walz. “U.S. citizens who are brown or Black are being stopped only for that reason, and asked for identification that proves they’re a U.S. citizen.”
Both governors said they believe the Trump administration is targeting blue states.
Pritzker is also calling for governors nationwide to denounce the National Guard deployments. In a statement on social media, he said Illinois could withdraw from the National Governors Association over the issue.
“If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization,” Pritzker wrote. “We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.”
The National Governors Association represents governors from all 50 states and across the political spectrum. California Gov. Gavin Newsom also made the same threat.
CBS News Chicago has reached out to both Mayor Johnson and Gov. Pritzker’s offices for further comment about Mr. Trump’s post.
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Members of the Texas National Guard have begun arriving at a U.S. Army Reserve facility in Chicago’s far southwestern suburbs, where they’re expected to participate in training before they are sent on their assignments to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and facilities.
On Tuesday afternoon, CBS News Chicago crews spotted National Guard troops dressed in camouflage with Texas National Guard patches walking around the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, near Joliet, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago.
Several trailers have been set up as temporary living quarters. Several soldiers were seen moving in with bags of belongings; some holding rifles and carrying folding chairs, possibly for meetings or other trainings. Fencing was also put up around the facility late Tuesday.
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Richard Hayes was the highest-ranking member of the Illinois National Guard. In his 30-plus-year career, he said he’s never seen a National Guard from a different state federalized and then sent to another state.
“This is novel. It doesn’t mean it’s necessarily illegal, it’s just different,” he said. “As far as the soldiers are concerned, the Illinois National Guard, even the Texas National Guard, they don’t get a say in whether they go or not go. It’s not a political organization, they’re just here to do what they’re being asked to do.”
State Representative Larry Walsh Jr. said he got word late Monday that the Elwood site would be the home base for the troops.
“This is a lot of political theater,” he said. “There’s a whole communication disconnect between the federal and local governments.”
If federalized, the National Guard would take their orders from the federal government and not the state.
“If the courts later say it’s not proper or not legal, then they’ll stand down,” Hayes said.
“I would ask the federal government and the administration, come on… let’s just start working as adults,” Walsh Jr. said.
Roughly 200 members of the Texas National Guard will deploy to Chicago this week, sources familiar with the operation told CBS News.
Members of the Texas National Guard are expected to begin their assignments in Chicago as soon as Wednesday, after receiving an operational brief, ahead of a federal court hearing on Thursday on a lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois and city of Chicago, which are seeking to block the troop deployment.
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State and local leaders said they have largely been left in the dark about the troop deployment and given no details on the troops’ mission.
Will County Executive Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant, a Democrat, said her office was not notified by the Trump administration about the National Guard deployment in Elwood, including how many troops were being stationed there or how long the operation would last.
“The arrival of the National Guard by the Trump Administration is an aggressive overreach. Our federal government moving armed troops into our community should be alarming to everyone,” she said in a statement. “I will be coordinating with local leaders to make sure we are doing everything in our power to protect the rights of our residents and the safety of everyone. Hopefully, the federal court hearing on Thursday will end this attack on our community.”
The Illinois National Guard has also been ordered to report for training on Tuesday, although it’s unclear if they’ll also be stationed in Elwood.
The Trump administration has said members of the National Guard will be assigned to the protection of federal facilities and federal law enforcement personnel, including the ICE facility in the west Chicago suburb of Broadview, and in downtown Chicago.
On Monday evening, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott posted a photo to X with a caption reading, “The elite Texas National Guard. Ever ready. Deploying now.” The photo shows Texas National Guard members boarding a plane.
On Sunday evening, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Trump had ordered National Guard members from Texas to be deployed to Illinois.
In a statement, Pritzker said 400 members of the Texas National Guard will be deployed to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the U.S.
As members of the Texas National Guard were arriving in Illinois, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson – who has vehemently opposed the deployment – was asked about their mission.
“There is a process that the National Guard goes through before they’re actually released into the streets of Chicago or anywhere,” he said. “But what’s really disturbing about all of this is that the National Guard, they have no policing authority or any policing powers. It’s not what they’re trained to do.”
While a West Coast federal judge approved a temporary restraining order blocking Texas National Guard troops from deploying to Portland, Oregon, a federal judge in Chicago declined to immediately grant a similar request on Monday to halt the deployment in Illinois. The judge has scheduled a hearing for Thursday to rule on the request to block the deployment.
On Sunday, a memo obtained by CBS News from the Pentagon called for hundreds of National Guard troops to be sent to Illinois. Pritzker on Saturday said that the Trump administration intended to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard members after he was offered an ultimatum on troop deployment. The ultimatum by the Trump administration, according to Pritzker, was “call up your troops, or we will.”
The Illinois National Guard members were not expected to be ready to deploy prior to Thursday’s court hearing, sources said. Those personnel will undergo additional training, including civil disturbance training in the coming days, and be assigned necessary protective equipment.
“Bringing in Texas National Guard is really a vast overreach of the federal government here,” former Illinois National Guard Adj. Gen. William Enyart said.
Enyart said that without roots in Chicago and a nuanced understanding of the area, troops from another state would be at a severe disadvantage.
“To bring in someone from 1,000 miles away, who doesn’t have any of those contacts, who doesn’t have any of that network developed, is absolutely a hazard to public safety,” he said.
Pritzker has repeatedly declined to call up the guard during the period of increased immigration enforcement, which the federal government has dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz.” Pritzker has also accused the Trump administration, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Customs and Border Protection Commander Gregory Bovino of intentionally sowing chaos in order to justify the deployment.
The Illinois Attorney General’s team and Chicago city attorneys will be back in federal court this coming Thursday in an effort to stop the mobilization of troops.
Meanwhile, attorneys for the Village of Broadview, home of an ICE processing center that has drawn heated protests and confrontations, were to appear in front of a judge on Tuesday to argue for the removal of a fence the federal government put up outside an ICE facility on Beach Street in Broadview.
They said the federal government did not get a permit for the fence and that it is illegal to block a public street. The judge in the case said they would rule on the village’s bid to take down the fence in the next couple of days.
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson could also see legal action soon regarding a protest curfew she enacted Monday night. She said village resources cannot keep up with repeated demonstrations outside the ICE processing center, so she is limiting gatherings there to be between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
“Let me be clear, I will always support the First Amendment and right of people to peacefully protest,” Thompson said Monday. “But as mayor, I must also balance the right with the safety and well-being of Broadview residents and the businesses.”
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President Trump has ordered National Guard troops into two more American cities — Portland, Oregon, and Chicago. Ash-har Quraishi and Adam Yamaguchi report.
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President Trump has thrust the U.S. military into a critical role deterring illegal crossings into this country at the southern border. As Charlie D’Agata reports, their presence is having unintended consequences.
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Federal agents shot a woman in the Brighton Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side Saturday morning after they became boxed in by vehicles, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.
DHS originally said the shooting happened while agents were patrolling in Broadview, where the department has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has been the site of ongoing protests and clashes between agents and demonstrators. But officials later confirmed the incident happened near 40th Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago.
The patrolling agents were rammed by vehicles and “boxed in by 10 cars,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
DHS said the agents were unable to move their vehicles and got out of the car. According to DHS officials, one of the drivers of a car boxing them in had a gun, which the agency said was a semi-automatic weapon. DHS said the agents opened fire, striking the driver, who they said is a woman.
Federal prosecutors said the agent fired about five shots at the woman. Prosecutors said she drove off, but paramedics found her and her car at a repair shop about a mile away, at which point she was taken to a hospital.
A spokesperson for Sinai Health System said the woman was later released from the hospital.
The woman was in FBI custody as of Saturday night, DHS said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois and the FBI announced Sunday that the woman — Marimar Martinez, 40, of Chicago — with forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.
DHS claimed the woman was named in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection intelligence bulletin last week for doxxing agents and posting threats against ICE online. They have not released any further information on those claims.
A later statement said as ICE agents were responding to the shooting, someone followed them and rammed their vehicle “in an attempt to run them off the road.” This person was arrested and was in the custody of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations last Saturday, DHS said.
Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) said she saw a man taken by federal agents at a gas station.
“Since then, there was one car that was at this gas station with a person, a U.S. citizen, that has now been detained,” Ramirez said.
Prosecutors said the man — Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, Chicago — faces the same charges at Martinez. Prosecutors alleged he drove away after the collisions with federal agents’ vehicles in Brighton Park, but was found by law enforcement with his car at a gas station about half a block away,
DHS added that an ICE vehicle popped a tire and was “mobbed,” and law enforcement had to abandon the vehicle for their own safety. DHS said the vehicle was “significantly damaged.”
DHS said several U.S. Customs and Border Protection law enforcement officers were “sent to the hospital with various injuries.”
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has deployed special operations teams “to restore law and order,” according to DHS.
All morning and into the afternoon Saturday, there were tense moments between agents and protesters, with yelling, objects thrown, and officers spraying pepper balls.
Groups of federal agents kept arriving on scene. Four to five undercover federal agents SUVs made their way through the crowd and go underneath tape. Each time they came through, protesters fought back.
“If they are zooming through a crowd of protesters and they are doing it every five minutes to continue the irritation on people, it’s almost like they want people to be provoked,” Ald. Ramirez said.
At one point, a military vehicle pulled up near the protesters, and an agent drew his gun from the roof, pointing it at protesters below.
“Now they got the SWAT truck here like we are like the military now, this is like a war zone here,” Gabriel said.
DHS accused Chicago police of not helping during the incident. DHS also said in its statement that “there is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene.”
Chicago police said in a statement they responded to the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood for a report of a person shot.
Chicago police said they responded to document the incident and to maintain safety and traffic control, but are not involved in the incident or investigation. CPD said federal authorities are investigating the shooting and “all further inquiries regarding the circumstances of this shooting should be referred to the appropriate federal authorities.”
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In city after city, the Trump administration, through its agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been testing limits of the law in apprehending and detaining people suspected of being undocumented, many of whom have no criminal record. Lee Cowan talks with a pastor whose Los Angeles parishioners feared being targeted by ICE; a man whose legal status in the U.S. was revoked and now faces deportation; and an attorney who resigned from ICE and now helps defend those detained by the government, which claims it is acting within the law.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said federal agents on Saturday morning shot a woman in the Chicago suburb of Broadview after the agents allegedly became boxed in by vehicles.
According to a statement from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, the incident unfolded when agents were patrolling in west suburban Broadview, where they have an ICE facility that has been the site of ongoing protests and clashes between agents and demonstrators.
The patrolling agents were rammed by vehicles and “boxed in by 10 cars,” DHS said. The statement did not say where in Broadview this occurred, but that it was “in the same area” as the ICE facility.
DHS said the agents were unable to move their vehicles and got out of the car. According to DHS officials, one of the drivers of a car boxing them in had a gun, which the agency said was a semi-automatic weapon. DHS said the agents opened fire, striking the driver, who they said is a woman. She was taken to a hospital for treatment. They did not offer further information about her condition, where she was shot, or how badly she was injured.
In their statement, DHS claimed the woman was named in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection intelligence bulletin last week for doxxing agents and posting threats against ICE online. They have not released her name or any other further information that could corroborate those claims.
DHS said no agents were injured.
DHS accused Chicago police of not helping during the incident, though Chicago police have no jurisdiction in Broadview. DHS also said in its statement that “there is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene.”
Chicago police said in a statement they responded to the 3900 block of South Kedzie in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood for a report of a person shot. Brighton Park is several miles away from Broadview, where McLaughlin’s statement said the shooting took place.
A second statement from DHS a short time later said Border Patrol officers were patrolling near 39th Place and S. Kedzie before repeating McLaughlin’s statement that said the incident took place in Broadview. CBS News Chicago has reached out to DHS officials for clarification, but they have just referred us to their statement.
Chicago police said they responded to document the incident, and to maintain safety and traffic control, but are not involved in the incident or investigation. CPD said federal authorities are investigating the shooting and “all further inquiries regarding the circumstances of this shooting should be referred to the appropriate federal authorities.”
The FBI said in a social media post Saturday afternoon that, “Following recent events during immigration enforcement in Broadview, the FBI and our federal law enforcement and prosecutorial partners continue to aggressively pursue charges and investigate violence against officers, obstruction of justice, and destruction of federal property. Our office is committed to ensuring the safety of Chicago’s streets and all of our neighborhoods.”
CBS News Chicago has reached out to Broadview police for more information and are waiting to hear back.
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The Department of Justice is claiming responsibility for the removal of the ICEBlock app from the Apple store, stirring debate over the government’s role in free enterprise.
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Apple has removed an app used to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from its App Store, with the developer saying in a social media post that it had been alerted by the technology company that its ICEBlock app was removed due to “objectionable content.”
The app, which is free, relies on crowdsourcing to track ICE agents, with the company noting that it allows people to report sightings of ICE activities “within a 5 mile radius of your current location.” The app crossed 1 million downloads a month ago, the developer said.
Apple didn’t respond to requests for comment. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE also didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
ICEBlock is one of a number of apps designed to let users track and anonymously report immigration agents. Another such took, called Coqui, was still available on the App Store as of Friday morning. Some migrants are relying on the apps to alert them to the location of ICE agents to avoid arrest amid the Trump administration’s ramp up of deportation activities.
In July, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan told CBS News she thinks such apps are dangerous and could be used to spot and ambush ICE agents.
“There’s always a form of free speech and a lot of things in technology, and we understand that and respect that, but where it crosses a line is when it becomes dangerous, not only to the ICE officers …,” Sheahan said at the time. She added, “If it’s impeding in law enforcement effort, that’s where that line comes in as well.”
Officials said last month that a gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas had searched for apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents.
—With reporting by Scott MacFarlane.
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Federal officials on Tuesday announced they completed what they called a “first-of-its kind” operation earlier this week targeting immigration fraud in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area, leading to four people in custody.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, conducted “Operation Twin Shield” over nine days and looked at more than 1,000 cases for “fraud or ineligibility indicators,” said Joseph Edlow, director of USCIS.
That yielded 275 cases of “suspected fraud.” But it narrowed to 42 case referrals to ICE and just four arrests so far. Nobody has been charged.
“This is what the government should be doing,” Edlow told reporters Tuesday in a press conference. “We have a responsibility to keep this system legitimate, and when you see what has been uncovered by these diligent officers over the past two weeks, less than two-week period, that’s only the tip of the iceberg to what we’re actually dealing with when it comes to immigration fraud.”
Edlow cited examples of what federal officers uncovered during the investigation like sham marriages, including one where a person took advantage of an elderly U.S. citizen. Another case involved a man admitting to fabricating a death certificate to falsely claim the end of a marriage, though the spouse who is the mother of his five children is alive in Minneapolis.
“What they found should shock all of America,” Edlow said.
Ana Pottratz Acosta, a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota Law School teaching at the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, said immigration fraud does happen, but it’s rare.
She believes the numbers released by federal officials on Tuesday underscore that.
“There were 275 cases where there was some sort of flag raised during those investigations, but only 42 cases out of approximately 900 or 1,000 where they commenced deportation or removal proceedings, and only four of them were arrested,” Pottratz Acosta said. “So if you look at the actual numbers, 42 cases out of 900 or 1,000, that’s less than 5%. And four cases out of 1,000, that’s like half a percent, so it’s a very small number and they’re completely blowing it out of proportion.”
When asked why the Twin Cities was the first city for such an operation, Edlow pointed to data showing “concerning” patterns of fraud, but declined to share more specifics.
The announcement comes one day after the U.S. Department of Justice said it filed a lawsuit against the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul for their so-called “sanctuary city” policies.
Pottratz Acosta added that there is a presumption “baked into our immigration laws” that a person getting married to a U.S. citizen or pursuing that relationship is doing so solely for immigration purposes so there is a high burden on the applicant to prove it’s legitimate.
Similarly, there are strict requirements for H-1B visas for foreign workers and student visas, she said.
“Our immigration system is very unforgiving, so even if you make a mistake, it’s often hard to fix it or correct the record, which is why it’s very important to be very careful before anything even gets submitted,” she said. “And I think it also is reflected in the very small number of notices to appear and arrests that resulted from an investigation of what they say is over 1,000 cases.”
USCIS said the agency expects ICE referrals to increase as more investigations stemming from this operation are completed. The operation began Sept. 19 and ended Sunday.
Edlow added that the Twin Cities is just the first area to be targeted in this way, though he did not say what other cities may be next on the list.
“I would say any city should be prepared to be the next site for an operation of this magnitude,” he said.
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The Des Moines public schools superintendent who has been detained by immigration authorities submitted his resignation Tuesday while he focuses on challenging his looming deportation, his lawyer said.
Ian Roberts had been under the impression from a prior attorney that his immigration case was “resolved successfully,” said attorney Alfredo Parrish. His law firm filed a request to stay Roberts’ deportation with an immigration court in Omaha, Nebraska, and was working on another motion to reopen the educator’s immigration proceedings.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Roberts last week, saying the Guyana native and former Olympic runner was living and working in the country illegally. A state board stripped Roberts’ license to be superintendent.
The Des Moines school board voted Monday to put Roberts on unpaid leave from his job leading the district, which has more than 30,000 students.
Roberts submitted a letter through his attorney announcing his immediate resignation Tuesday, saying he did not want to distract the district’s leaders and teachers from focusing on educating students.
Board chair Jackie Norris had given Roberts until noon Tuesday to provide documentation showing he can legally work in the U.S., or face dismissal proceedings. The board plans to hold a special meeting Tuesday night to consider whether to accept the resignation.
The backlash from the arrest was far from over.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced Tuesday that it would investigate whether the district has engaged in racial discrimination by favoring non-white applicants as part of a plan to “increase the number of teachers of color.” A district spokesperson said the matter was under review.
Roberts, 54, is being held at the Woodbury County Jail in Sioux City, Iowa, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northwest of Des Moines.
Parrish described Roberts as a “tremendous advocate to this community” who was an inspiration to students, and he thanked the public for an outpouring of support. Parrish said he and other lawyers spoke with Roberts for hours Tuesday and “his spirits are high.”
Parrish cautioned that it was a “very complex case” that will take time to investigate. He acknowledged Roberts could face deportation at any moment and it was uncertain whether his new appeals would be considered by the court.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also investigating how Roberts obtained a handgun that was allegedly found in his district vehicle during last week’s arrest. That case could lead to federal charges.
The office of U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn, a Republican who represents the Des Moines area, released a redacted excerpt of Roberts’ May 2024 removal order Tuesday after obtaining the document through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The document alleges that Roberts was provided notice to appear at a removal hearing but failed to show up or otherwise apply for other relief.
An immigration judge found the Department of Homeland Security had submitted evidence to support its allegations that Roberts was subject to removal. The judge ordered Roberts to make arrangements to voluntarily leave the U.S. or face deportation.
Parrish affirmed his client was born in Guyana but did not say whether he’d ever applied for U.S. citizenship or legal permanent residency, when his work authorization may have expired, and what happened during the removal proceedings last year.
However, he released a letter dated March 2025 that he said was from Roberts’ prior attorney in Texas informing her client the case had been closed in his favor.
“It has been my pleasure to represent you throughout this process, and I am pleased to report that your case has reached a successful resolution,” Texas attorney Jackeline Gonzalez wrote.
An aide to Gonzalez confirmed the law firm had represented Roberts but gave no immediate comment.
Norris, the school board chair, said the district had not been notified of the removal order until it received a copy Monday.
She said Roberts signed a form attesting that he was a U.S. citizen when he was hired in 2023, and submitted a Social Security card and a driver’s license as verification.
When Roberts was cited for traffic violations in the Des Moines area in 2023 and 2024, he presented a Maryland driver’s license in each case, the tickets show. But the licenses listed different addresses.
Roberts has been registered to vote at one of the addresses since at least 2017, according to a Maryland voter registration database. The Maryland Board of Elections said Roberts’ registration may have been unintentional, and a review “did not show any voting history.”
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The United States Department of Justice is suing Minnesota, and both Twin Cities, over so-called “sanctuary city” policies.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Monday that “Minnesota officials are jeopardizing the safety of their own citizens by allowing illegal aliens to circumvent the legal process.”
In the 34-page lawsuit, the department is asking a judge to invalidate sections of the state constitution, city codes in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and Hennepin County administrative orders.
Federal prosecutors claim the collective policies that prevent local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement are unconstitutional.
Both Minneapolis and St. Paul have city ordinances that prohibit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
The state of Minnesota has no law making it a “sanctuary state” for undocumented immigrants.
This story will be updated.
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A state agency revoked the professional license of the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on Monday, days after federal agents arrested him on accusations that he was living and working in the country illegally.
The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners said in a letter to Des Moines public schools Superintendent Ian Roberts that he was ineligible to hold a license because “you no longer possess legal presence in the United States.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Roberts on Friday, saying that he was subject to a final removal order that a judge issued in May 2024. Roberts is a native of Guyana who entered the United States on a student visa in 1999, according to ICE. He’s being held at an Iowa jail.
ICE said that Roberts fled after a traffic stop in Des Moines, and that he was apprehended with the assistance of the Iowa State Patrol. The agency said that Roberts, 54, had possessed a loaded handgun in his district-issued vehicle, a hunting knife and $3,000 cash when arrested.
Des Moines school officials said they had known nothing about Roberts being in the country illegally, and that he had signed a form verifying his eligibility to work when he was hired in 2023.
The district said Roberts had been identified as a candidate for the job by a search firm and that a “comprehensive background check” was completed as part of the process. The state board that granted Roberts a license to serve as superintendent said that process included background checks by the state police and FBI.
His arrest shocked a district where he was known as a frequent presence at community events and a champion of students during his two-year tenure. Roberts had been in education for the last two decades, and had served as a superintendent in Pennsylvania before his hiring in Iowa.
The Des Moines school board put Roberts on paid administrative leave during a brief special meeting Saturday. The board said it would hold another meeting Monday afternoon to consider changing Roberts’ leave status to unpaid, citing the revocation of his license.
“New information and confirmed facts will continue to inform our decisions as we develop a path forward,” said Jackie Norris, chair of the Des Moines Public Schools Board. “Two things can be true at the same time — Dr. Roberts was an effective and well-respected leader and there are serious questions related to his citizenship and ability to legally perform his duties as superintendent.”
ICE said that it had asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to investigate how Roberts obtained a handgun. People in the country illegally are ineligible to possess firearms. Roberts had a history of gun ownership, however, and had been cited in 2021 in Pennsylvania and fined $100 for storing a loaded hunting rifle in his vehicle.
ICE has said that Roberts also had a separate, pending weapons charge dating to February 2020, but has not provided further details about the incident.
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