Ellie Belle

They told me that the women in the neighborhood, the other like

immigrant women who all like work together and know each other called him a panda dios like a loving term for someone who is just like a community member like a shining beacon in a community um and that is that is who he is and i also really want to emphasize that it wouldn't really matter if that wasn't who he was and if he was somehow quote-unquote lesser than that or not a saint

Because there's no such thing as, like, a good or bad immigrant.

Nobody deserves to be treated this inhumanely.

But so what happened was it was early, early morning, the morning of Monday, December 29th.

Okay.

It's officially been two weeks since this happened.

Monday, December 29th.

It's like somewhere between maybe 5 and 6 a.m., 6.30.

It's still dark out.

He and his wife, whose name I'm not going to use to protect her anonymity and her identity, but he and his wife got into their car.

And the windows were rolled down the slightest bit.

They were getting in their car to drive to work so that then she could go back home and be with her kids after taking him to work.

And I want to be really...

explicit that we know that when ICE agents came to do this raid, they didn't have their names when they approached them.

They didn't know anything about them until they took them in.

In the Chicago area, you know, you can talk about this a little if you want, but ICE has to have a warrant for the people they're picking up.

They can't just pick up anyone based on the NAVA consent decree, which was just extended by the appeals court.

We know that in Chicago, this is something that has been continuously happening.

And as we look at this from a broader context, they go after non-white people, kidnap them and ask questions later just because they think no one is going to care.