{"id":38897,"date":"2025-10-09T22:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-an-immigration-raid-on-a-chicago-apartment-block-unfolded\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:53:22","slug":"how-an-immigration-raid-on-a-chicago-apartment-block-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-an-immigration-raid-on-a-chicago-apartment-block-unfolded\/","title":{"rendered":"How an immigration raid on a Chicago apartment block unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Residents of an apartment block in Chicago that was targeted in a raid on suspected illegal immigrants have described seeing armed agents in the hallways and a helicopter landing on the roof of the building. One US-born resident told BBC Verify he had his hands zip-tied by officers, before being released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Department of Homeland Security, which released dramatic footage of the raid, said 37 &#8220;illegal aliens&#8221; were arrested, including suspected gang members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Nick Beake has been speaking to people living in the block and trying to piece together how the operation unfolded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\"><i id=\"produced-by-aisha-sembhi.-graphics-by-mesut-ersoz-&amp;-leo-scutt-richter.-additional-reporting-by-joshua-cheetham-&amp;-eva-artesona.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 gbdkAi\">Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz &amp; Leo Scutt-Richter. Additional reporting by Joshua Cheetham &amp; Eva Artesona.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c3vzq6n3xveo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of an apartment block in Chicago that was targeted in a raid on suspected illegal immigrants have described seeing armed agents in the hallways and a helicopter landing on the roof of the building. One US-born resident told BBC Verify he had his hands zip-tied by officers, before being released. The Department of Homeland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[12179,3249,11737,574,5975,3741],"class_list":["post-38897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-apartment","tag-block","tag-chicago","tag-immigration","tag-raid","tag-unfolded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38899,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897\/revisions\/38899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}