On MSNBC, Chris Hayes says the recent ICE raid in Chicago is the “most egregious abuse of our basic rights in America that I’ve seen in a long time — maybe in my lifetime”
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From October 2, 2025, editon of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): We are getting new reports about a chilling and downright shocking escalation of ICE tactics against the residents of Chicago. In the middle of the night, hundreds of armed federal agents and police, backed up by riot trucks, smoke grenades, and helicopters, breached fences and busted doors in an immigration raid on an entire apartment building on the city's south side. They pulled dozens of residents from their homes in zip ties, including children, some of them without any clothes. They then held some outside for hours and dragged the others into rented vans.
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HAYES: They zip tied the kids together. ICE put out a statement saying they were pursuing Tren de Aragua gang members, but U.S. citizens living in the building say they were detained too. The cops told them that if they had any unrelated warrants, they wouldn't be going back home. Thirty-seven people were ultimately arrested after agents separated children from their parents on the street. And if you're looking at this and asking yourself, how is this legal? That is the right question to ask. And it has kind of an answer. And to understand it, you have to go back to Los Angeles this summer, where federal immigration agents started pushing the envelope on orders from the White House. They raided Home Depot parking lots and Walmart lots, and they grabbed people they saw. Near one Home Depot, masked agents with batons grabbed Narciso Barranco, who has lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years and has three sons serving in the Marine Corps. Agents beat Barranco on the ground, dislocating his shoulder before detaining him.
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HAYES: The consequence of all this is what we're seeing now in the dead of night in Chicago. Dozens of federal agents raiding an entire apartment building with kids in it just to see what they can find. It's the most egregious abuse of our basic rights in America that I've seen in a long time — maybe in my lifetime. And it comes two weeks after Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted a hype video of another violent ICE raid with helicopters and grenades, this time on a house in the Chicago suburbs. And guess what? Two U.S. citizens were mistakenly arrested. You know, there's a reason the American founders put the right to be free from unlawful searches and seizures in the Bill of Rights from the start. Masked secret police profiling people and now targeting entire apartment buildings, making everyone prove they're not guilty of something is the province of tyrants. It is the opposite of American, and I don't think Americans will stand for it, nor should they.