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Federal agent says Chicago’s ‘ICE-free zones’ endanger operations, embolden protesters
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As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs an executive order establishing «ICE-free zones,» a federal special agent working on deportations said these types of measures are causing real complications and hampering ICE’s ability to crack down on criminal illegal immigrants.
The special agent, who works deportations in New England, told Fox News Digital that sanctuary policies banning ICE agents from using police departments or other city areas for staging often forces agents to be exposed, having to prepare for missions in public areas.
The agent explained that if ICE does not have a nearby office and is barred from using city grounds, «that means you’re stuck with, ‘Okay, I’m going to go to a supermarket. I’m going to go to some office park if I can find one, maybe a park while I don my vest and all that, and I’m getting briefed.»
On Monday, Johnson, a Democrat, signed an executive order prohibiting the use of city parking lots and garages for civil immigration enforcement staging areas, processing locations or operations bases.
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Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson (right) signed an executive order on Monday barring federal officials from using city property for immigration enforcement operations. (Erin Hooley/AP and Kamil Krazaczynski/Getty Images)
Johnson touted the order as establishing «ICE-free zones.» Speaking at a press conference for the signing on Monday, he said the order also enables «unwilling private businesses» to refuse ICE agents’ use of their property to stage for operations. He said the order is «aimed at reining in this out-of-control administration.»
«If the federal government violates this executive order, we will take them to court,» Johnson said, urging Trump to leave Chicago «the freak alone.»
In a statement posted on X, Johnson accused ICE agents of «detaining elected officials, tear-gassing protestors, children, and Chicago police officers, and abusing Chicago residents.»
«With this Executive Order, Chicago stands firm in protecting the Constitutional rights of our residents and immigrant communities and upholding our democracy,» Johnson wrote.
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Federal law enforcement agents break up protesters outside of an immigrant processing center with a barrage of tear gas and pepper balls on Sept. 27, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois. The demonstrators were protesting a recent surge in ICE apprehensions in the Chicago area, part of a push by the Trump administration dubbed Operation Midway Blitz. (Getty Images)
The White House responded by issuing a blistering statement in which it called the order «a disgusting betrayal of every law-abiding citizen.»
The White House called the order a «sick policy» that «coddles criminal illegal alien killers, rapists, and gangbangers who prey on innocent Americans.»
«Shielding the most depraved, violent criminal illegal aliens from justice is not only an insult to every Chicagoan, it’s also a dangerous intensification of Democrats’ lunatic ‘sanctuary’ agenda where criminal illegals come before American citizens,» said the White House statement.
According to the agent, Chicago is not the only sanctuary city that bars ICE from using municipal property to stage immigration enforcement operations.
«What does that leave you with in an urban environment? You’re going to go to a supermarket. Who’s at a supermarket? Everyone and their grandmother,» the agent said.
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Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol and the police, attempt to keep protesters back outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Oct. 5, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The agent explained that preparing for missions in public spaces presents an operational risk because it allows anti-ICE activists to track and publicize their movements.
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«They can see us getting together and they put it on Facebook immediately because there’s different Facebook pages that we know they put us on,» said the agent.
The agent also expressed concern over sanctuary policies keeping police departments from being able to assist if protesters get violent.
«Being in a sanctuary city, in the event this gets violent, or they get handsy or somebody gets hurt, either a government person or a protester. What are the local police going to do? Are they going to let us deal with it? I don’t know,» said the agent.
Fox News Digital’s Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.
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Israel-Hamas: las cifras escalofriantes de los dos años de guerra que han devastado las vidas palestinas en Gaza
Aproximadamente el 11% de la población de Gaza ha muerto o ha sido herida
Casi toda la población está desplazada y miles están desaparecidos
Ruins of apartments destroyed by Israeli strikes litter the area next to Khaled Nassar’s home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza City Feb. 9, 2025. Nassar’s daughter, Dalia, and his son, Mahmoud, were killed in separate airstrikes, leaving both buried under their homes. (AP Photo/Abdel Hana)Israel ocupa la gran mayoría de Gaza
Al menos el 30% de las personas pasan días sin comer
Las ciudades han sido arrasadas
Una imagen satelital facilitada por Vantor muestra una vista general de la ciudad de Gaza y el norte de Gaza el 27 de septiembre de 2023. Foto EFE
Una imagen satelital facilitada por Vantor muestra una vista general de la ciudad de Gaza y el norte de Gaza el 11 de septiembre de 2025. Foto EFE
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Exactly two years ago, Hamas terrorists stormed the Israeli border from Gaza, killing young families living on a small kibbutz and hunting down young people attending an outdoor music festival. The attackers killed more than 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages.
Fox’s Trey Yingst was on the scene several days after the massacre in Beeri. This is what he saw:
«The kitchen floors are stained with blood. People were home at the time. It was early in the morning on Saturday when Hamas militants stormed into their homes. The soldiers here tell us they found bodies that appeared to be executed. People with hands tied behind their backs, mothers holding their small children, bodies decapitated. Pure horror in this small town,» Yingst reported.
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Keith Siegel, accompanied by his wife Aviva (on his left), disembark from a military helicopter at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichlov) on Feb 1. 2025. (Getty Images)
Forty-eight hostages remain in Gaza. Twenty are believed to be alive. Aviva Siegel was held for 51 days, while her husband, Keith, was held for more than 400.
«When they came in to kidnap us, they shot us. And one of the bullets hit Keith. And it didn’t hit me because I was lucky, but it could have been different. And we were taken underneath the ground and we just didn’t have any air to breathe. And I really felt that it’s gonna be my last hours of my life,» Siegel told Fox News on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks.
She remembers arriving in Gaza and seeing Palestinian families cheering and jeering at the wounded hostages.
Israeli forces are seen among the rubble of buildings destroyed after Palestinian terrorists attacked parts of southern Israel, in Be’eri, Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. (Nir Keidar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«Everybody was just waiting for us. They knew we were coming. And we were taken immediately underneath the ground. And I’ll never forget the picture that I’ve got in my head of the terrorist, telling me to come down this ladder. It’s very narrow to go underneath the ground. I’m shaking. I’ll never forget his smile,» Siegel said on the second anniversary of the attacks and the start of her captivity.
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American Israeli citizen Keith Siegel walks toward his release by Hamas terrorists during a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in February 2025. (Omar-Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)
Her husband Keith was kept in solitary confinement for six months.
«I was moved 13 times in 51 days while I was there. While Keith stayed there for 484 days, we were tortured, we were starved. They used to eat in front of us. I lost 10 kilos. Keith came home looking like a skeleton. He was just so thin. I couldn’t walk when I came back. I was so ill,» Aviva said.
Tens of thousands of Gazans have been killed in the aftermath by the Israeli military, which now controls 80% of the Gaza Strip. Israel says it does not target civilians but more than 90% of Gaza is now destroyed.
Keith Siegel meets his family at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. (GPO)
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«I’m a witness to the Hamas terrorist touching the girls and doing whatever they wanted. I’m witness of the Hamas terrorists beating one of the girls that was with us and threatening her that they’re gonna kill her just because they thought she was lying,» Siegel said. «For me, it was like I was killed. For me not to be able to help them and to help Keith when he was tortured was the worst thing that I could go through. It was worse than when I was tortured. And I was tortured. I was pulled by my hair. I was pushed. I was starved. I was laughed at. I was threatened. I went to hell.»
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El presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, resultó ileso tras ser atacado a balazos el auto en el que viajaba el martes por el sur del país en medio de protestas indígenas contra su gobierno. Lo informó la ministra de Ambiente y Energía, Inés Manzano.
“Aparecieron 500 personas y le estuvieron lanzando piedras (a la caravana) y, obviamente, también hay signos de bala en el carro del presidente”, dijo Manzano a la prensa.
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Además, aseguró que el mandatario salió ileso. La caravana presidencial fue atacada cuando se trasladaba hacia la localidad andina de Cañar (sur) y luego Noboa participó de un acto público.
Hoy se cumple el día 16 de las protestas indígenas contra el alza del diésel y otros reclamos.
Videos difundidos por la presidencia muestran la escena desde el interior de uno de los vehículos cuando varios objetos chocan contra los vidrios y alguien al interior grita “agachen la cabeza”.
El video que muestra un ataque al vehículo presidencial donde viajaba Daniel Noboa (Video: X/@Presidencia_Ec)
Otras imágenes del exterior muestran a un grupo de manifestantes, algunos de ellos indígenas con trajes tradicionales, que lanzan piedras y palos contra la caravana que pasa por la carretera seguida de una tanqueta y en medio del sonido de sirenas.
Los vehículos fueron atacados cuando se trasladaban hacia la localidad andina de Cañar, en el sur del país. Luego Noboa participó de un acto público en Cuenca.
“Un poco de vándalos”
Poco después, Noboa habló en un acto en la ciudad andina de Cuencia y dijo que no permitirá que “un poco de vándalos” le impidan trabajar.
En un discurso ante estudiantes, mencionó las ventajas del bachillerato técnico y la importancia de la visión moderna para informarse y debatir con miras a enfrentar desafíos.
El presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, habla durante un evento en Otavalo, Ecuador, el miércoles 24 de septiembre de 2025, para entregar beneficios y condenar las protestas contra el aumento al precio del diésel tras los recortes en los subsidios al combustible. (AP Foto/Dolores Ochoa)
“Hoy es el momento de optar por el futuro que queremos para nuestro país. Hoy es el momento de luchar por el desarrollo, pero hacerlo de una manera pacífica, de una manera inteligente y de una manera colectiva”, dijo.
Además, afirmó: “No sigan los malos ejemplos como los que en el camino nos querían parar para que no esté yo presente en este evento con ustedes y trataron de agredirnos”.
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“Esas agresiones no se aceptan en el nuevo Ecuador, la ley aplica para todos”, dijo. Por ello, “no vamos a permitir que un poco de vándalos eviten que nosotros trabajemos por ustedes”, subrayó.
En videos que circulan en redes sociales se observa cuando manifestantes lanzan piedras contra la caravana presidencial y dañan varios vehículos.
Cuál es el origen de las protestas
El detonante de las protestas indígenas fue la eliminación, el 12 de septiembre, del subsidio al diésel, que elevó de 1,80 a 2,80 dólares el galón (3,78 litros) de ese combustible.
Los indígenas exigen restituir el subsidio, pero también bajar en tres puntos el impuesto al valor agregado (IVA) hasta el 12 %.
Ahora, como plataforma de su protesta, incorporaron su negativa a la consulta popular, prevista para el próximo 16 de noviembre en la que se preguntará sobre la posible instalación de una Asamblea Constituyente para redactar una nueva Constitución.
Noboa aseguró que el dinero que antes se destinaba el subsidio al diésel se entrega ahora de forma directa, a través de compensaciones e incentivos, a los sectores más vulnerables, y ya no se desvía a grupos delincuenciales.
“Hoy estamos golpeando al narcotráfico, a los traficantes de combustibles, a todos esos que le buscan el mal al Ecuador”, dijo Noboa en un discurso en la comunidad Sigsihuayco, en Cañar.
Los cortes de vías mantienen bloqueada la provincia andina de Imbabura, donde varios ciudadanos participaron en marchas en defensa de su libertad para trabajar. Los manifestantes impiden en ciertas ciudades que abran sus comercios, mientras locales como restaurantes y hoteles reportan pérdidas por cancelaciones de reservas de turistas y la falta de productos
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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