"CHICAGO It's a sunny October morning, and Yackson is waiting for a bus that will take him to meet his immigration attorney. The Venezuelan, who NPR is identifying by his first name because of his immigration status, looks at a big, run-down apartment building in front of him. Earlier this month, it was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who landed a helicopter on the roof, and arrested more than 30 people. Yackson, 39, says he's terrified."
""We already don't know who is grabbing us, whether it's ICE or whether it's people who disguise themselves as ICE," Yackson says in Spanish. "With the National Guard, it's going to be even harder, scarier." In several cities across the country facing National Guard deployments, NPR has heard similar sentiment."
""The government isn't exactly doing a great job of proactively delineating this person is National Guard who isn't allowed to arrest immigrants, and this person is an ICE agent or an FBI agent who is," says Dara Lind a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, noting that many times federal agents are in military-style gear, or masked, or not clearly marked. She says this makes it hard to look at patrols on the street and figure out who is legally authorized to engage in law enforcement activities or not."
A helicopter-assisted ICE raid on a Chicago apartment building resulted in more than 30 arrests and deepened fear among local residents. A Venezuelan resident named Yackson reports being terrified and reluctant to leave his home amid talk of National Guard deployments. Many residents and experts describe confusion about who is authorized to arrest immigrants because personnel often use military-style gear or are not clearly marked. U.S. law prohibits military personnel from making arrests, yet concurrent deployments and federal immigration operations blur distinctions between crime control and immigration enforcement. The Guard's role in these deployments remains unclear.
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