ICE Targeting Latinos: Both Morally Wrong and Bad for the Economy

In the middle of the night, on September 30, a federal military-style assault was deployed on a civilian apartment building in Chicago's South Shore district. Without warning or warrants, residents of the complex, mostly U.S. citizens of color, many of them children, were forcibly taken from their homes, zip-tied, and detained for hours.

“They just treated us like we were nothing,” Pertissue Fisher, a U.S. citizen and one of the residents victimized in the onslaught, told ABC News. She said she was handcuffed, held for hours, and released around 3:00 a.m. She said this was the first time a gun was ever put to her face.

The Trump administration's expanded immigration enforcement ostensibly focuses on efforts to target immigrant criminals and international gang members involved in narco-trafficking and related offenses. But the South Shore raid targeted a community that consists of nearly 95 percent U.S. citizens, most of whom are African American.