A family walks away in tears after their mother was detained on June 4, 2025, outside an Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Community organizers, protesters and several Chicago aldermen clashed with federal agents Wednesday as they detained immigrants outside a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement office on the Near South Side. By Wednesday afternoon, elected officials, including Aldermen Anthony Quezada, 35th, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, and Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, 33rd, joined the growing number of people.
Carlos Pimeda, far right, tears up as he explains to Chicago Ald. Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, 33rd, far left, Anthony Quezada, 35th, second left, and Byron Sigcho-López, 25th, that he dropped his family friend off at 8:15 a.m., on June 4, 2025, at the ISAP office and that he had been waiting at the facility for almost six hours. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)Handcuffed detainees are led into a van by federal agents on South Michigan Avenue as protesters demonstate on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Detainees are escorted by federal agents to white vans parked outside the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office, ISAP, run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)Handcuffed detainees are led into a van by federal agents on South Michigan Avenue as protesters demonstate on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)People cry as they see their loved one being escorted by federal agents outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
Ald. Anthony Quezada, 35th, is knocked down alongside Ald. Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, 33rd, while confronting federal agents on June 4, 2025, as the agents approached an ISAP
office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove detainees from the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)Federal agents hold back protesters as they lead handcuffed detainees into a van on South Michigan Avenue on on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)A Chicago police officer speaks to Ald. Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, 33rd, and Anthony Quezada, 35th, as they block the driveway to stop federal vehicles from entering the parking lot outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
A youth cries after his mother was taken away in a van by federal agents on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)Federal agents move people back after they escorted people in handcuffs to white vans parked outside the ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)Ald. Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, 33rd, listens in to a speaker during a news conference outside of the ISAP office on June 4, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)
A woman and child move out of the way as federal agents bring people to white vans outside of the ISAP office on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)People in handcuffs are escorted by federal agents to white vans parked outside the ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)Chicago police stand inside while demonstrators gather on June 4, 2025, at an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
People wave to their loved one inside of the ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)OCAD organizer Antonio Gutiérrez speaks to Carlos Pimeda, after Pimeda had waited for six hours for a family friend to return from his check-in at the ISAP office on June 4, 2025. Pimeda said he brings his friend to his immigration check-ins and they usually last about an hour. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)Federal agents hold back protesters as they lead handcuffed detainees into a van on South Michigan Avenue on June 4,
2025, outside the ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
A man tears up as he talks on the phone in the alley behind the ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025, as protesters scream at them. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)Masked federal agents arrive to remove detainees as protesters demonstrate on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)The exterior of an ISAP office at BI Inc. on South Michigan Avenue is seen on June 4, 2025. A scene unfolded earlier where ICE officers detained a number of people at the ISAP office. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)
People hug after federal agents took away detainees in vans on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, 33rd, and Ald. Anthony Quezada, 35th, join hands and prepare to be arrested as they block a van from entering on June 4, 2025, outside a Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. The van turned away and they were not arrested. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)Ald. Byron Sigcho López, 25th, yells at federal agents as they return to their vehicles parked near an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025, after the federal agents escorted people in handcuffs from the facility into vans. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
The van door closes after handcuffed detainees are loaded in by federal agents on South Michigan Avenue as protesters demonstate on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)A federal agent pushes Ald. Jessie Fuentes, 26th, as she stands near the parking lot next to the ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)Handcuffed detainees are led into a van by federal agents on South Michigan Avenue as protesters demonstrate on June 4, 2025, outside an ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the South Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
A protester leads a chant in the alley behind the ISAP office run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
