ICE identifies another location/job to grab immigrants: airport rideshare lots
Federal agents showed up at the rideshare lot at O’Hare Airport twice Saturday to carry out raids twice Saturday. NBC Chicago’s Randy Gyllenhaal has the latest.
Border Patrol officers detained 11 people Saturday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport rideshare parking lot after witnesses say agents showed up and began asking people for identification.
Federal agents twice blocked the exit from the lot where Uber and Lyft drivers — often coming from immigrant backgrounds — wait to pick up riders.
The agents came to the lot around 9:30 a.m. and again around 1 p.m. Saturday, witnesses told NBC Chicago.
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"They asked for my ID three times, they came to us and asked if you were a citizen," one woman, a U.S. citizen, said. She added that it did not appear to her that the agents were looking for anybody specific.
Border Patrol detains 11 during raid at O’Hare rideshare lot – NBC Chicago
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