Right-wing influencers accompany Icefield Agents in Chicago raid | far right (US)

Right-wing influencers accompany Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials Chicago The agency exacerbated the city’s arrests on Sunday. Icefield agents arrested four people in the southwest of the city.

Ben Bergquam, the right-wing internet personality, is with the agents, filming and producing content and quarreling with local residents, according to a video watched on X by The Guardian. In the video, he appears to be on the ice and on the nearby cars where people are arrested, and he seems to be on the car. Later, he yelled at a group of Chicago people who gathered to prevent Operation Ice from “inside.”

Bergquam often travels to immigration shelters and protests, even before filming an ice raid in Chicago to prove that those who opposed did something wrong Donald Trump and his agenda. In the 2024 video Claiming wrongly As part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Hurricane Helen victim will not be financially helped because the Federal Emergency Administration (FEMA) has spent all home immigration in Chicago.

Usually located in Fresno, California, Bergquam travels to Illinois from at least 2019 According to the Chicago Clubwhen he mistakenly accuses a local pastor of being part of a transnational group that directs immigrant caravans from Central and South America. He is part of the same right-wing network, the Real Voice News, which is hosted by Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk and other far-right figures.

The immigration agency told the Guardian that the ice has been operating in Chicago and aims to enforce the law around dangerous criminal foreigners who protect them and the city protects their guardian citizens. “As we coordinate with federal partners of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, we will continue our law enforcement and public safety missions without avoiding it. ”

Bergquam did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

DHS released on X the agency’s operations in Chicago on Sunday and Monday constitute the so-called operations “Operation Midway Blitz”focusing on the main Latino community around the Midway Airport.

Just like the Supreme Court ruled Ice can continue to operate in Los AngelesAccording to a U.S. District Court judge, people are detained based on standards including “blatant race profiles.”

Trump targeted Chicago’s asylum policy and described it as the person who committed Saturday’s crime, and he posted to the truth: “Chicago wants to find out why it is called the Department of War”, but he backed off the claim On Sunday. His stated plan was to deploy the National Guard to the city to fight crime, just as he did Los Angeles and Washington, DC. But, in the summer, the crime rate in the city is The lowest in 60 yearsaccording to WBEZ.

Bergquam visited Chicago in January and accompanied the “Border Tsar”, Tom Homan, in an ice raid and stood outside again in April City shelter This serves new immigrants and uninvolved Chicagoans and points to women standing outside, calling them “illegals.”

Members of DHS and White House officials have brought together their own hoarse scrolls to showcase the ice operation and take advantage of the opportunity to facilitate their massive deportation program, while DHS secretary Kristi Noem Totally shiny For videos during the ice raid. this DHS,,,,, White House and Nom All posted on social media in a strange way about the raid, an August post by DHS, which contained a segment of ice hockey agents on ice, raided the car wash 1976 Rose Royce’s bicycle washing.

They even have Dr. Philthe real name of the celebrity doctor is Phil McGraw, participated in questioning the purpose of these raids.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Posts Monday on x When he started, he was unaware of the federal government’s activities in the city: “The City of Chicago has not received notice from the Trump administration’s actions to increase immigration.

“We remain opposed to any potential militarized immigration enforcement without due process, as ICE’s records are detaining and deporting U.S. citizens and violating the human rights of hundreds of detainees.”