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US Citizens detained for hours during massive immigration raid that empties Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night

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I live next door to immigrants. They say they are engineers and fly an American flag. Is that good enough or should I ring their bell and check their papers. What then, sell my house?

Could you imagine such a utopia? Citizens informing on their neighbors? Hopefully we will reach this point before it's too late! We must defend freedom at all costs!
 
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Stories are piling up of American citizens and those otherwise legally in the United States being arrested or detained by federal agents carrying out warrantless raids.

Americans being stopped, brutalized, and detained by federal agents have become known as the "Kavanaugh Stop," [after] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote in a ruling that American citizens were not being swept up in the federal raids.

"If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go."

[Clearly that doesn't describe the OP. Or many other incidents.]

One such incident happened last week when hundreds of federal agents descended upon an apartment building in Chicago, detaining and handcuffing people inside, including children. Over and over, American citizens tried to tell agents who they were, but were ignored. The ACLU of Illinois revealed in an interview with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that one man asked to see the warrant granted for the raid and demanded a lawyer. He received neither.

It's unclear whether a warrant was even obtained, wrote Legum, noting that feds haven't responded to requests to view one.
 
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