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mucifer

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Fri Oct 17, 2025, 06:37 AM Friday

Look For The Helpers: How Chicagoans Are Supporting Their Neighbors Amid ICE Raids

CHICAGO — If there is one thing to draw hope from amid the descent of federal agents into Chicago over the past month, it’s how Chicagoans far and wide are showing up in support of one another.

Across the city, neighbors are stepping up to help kids get to school safely, picking up groceries for families who fear leaving their homes and raising money to support street vendors and others whose livelihoods have been threatened by the swarm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrols.

While it remains unknown how long the increased ICE presence will last — Russell Hott, ICE’s field director in Chicago, told Block Club last week that there was no planned end date — the effect of people showing up for one another will continue to reverberate for just as long, neighbors and organizers said.


https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/look-for-the-helpers-how-chicagoans-are-supporting-their-neighbors-amid-ice-raids/

Lots of detailed info with links on ways to help in the article.
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Look For The Helpers: How Chicagoans Are Supporting Their Neighbors Amid ICE Raids (Original Post) mucifer Friday OP
This is exactly how new community resources and support groups form slightlv Friday #1

slightlv

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1. This is exactly how new community resources and support groups form
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 11:04 AM
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and become fixtures in a city... they don't go away. Once the immediate danger is truly gone, they may morph a bit, but as community resources, they stay.

trump and miller have no idea what they've unleashed in the majority of the american people. They will pay, at some point. And they won't like what's coming their way.

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