Top blue city university's newspaper tracks ICE operations amid frequent violent clashes with feds
A school newspaper at a highly-ranked private university launched an interactive ICE tracking map earlier this month and is soliciting tips from readers on federal law enforcement pursuits in the area The University of Chicago newspaper The Maroon has been tracking ICE agents since Oct The Maroon is documenting Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE sightings in the Hyde Park Kenwood and Woodlawn neighborhoods on an interactive map following the launch of ICE s Operation Midway Blitz last month the news article containing the map says Each icon on the map is paired with the address of the ICE sighting or enforcement operation The interactive icons display the date of the sighting along with a short explanation of what happened at the location CLICK HERE FOR MORE CAMPUS RADICALS COAST TO COASTThe news story solicits tips on ICE activity from readers The Maroon is collecting evidence of immigration enforcement activity e g a timestamped photo or video to verify reports of ICE activity around campus the story says It then asks readers to contact the paper's editors with information either by email or the encrypted messaging application Signal DHS BLITZES CHICAGOLAND NETTING A MULTITUDE OF ARRESTS AS NOEM ONSITE FOR IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN The Maroon protects source information and your name and contact information will only be seen by the paper s editors the article says In Chicago ICE has faced numerous clashes with violent agitators in new months ans DHS of late publicized an increase in death threats targeting ICE officers The University of Chicago itself whose noted unofficial tagline is where fun goes to die just now located itself at the center of immigration enforcement conflict when a professor was arrested for allegedly battering police officers at an anti-ICE rally outside the Broadview Illinois illegal immigrant detention center Associate Professor Eman Abdelhadi was arrested on Oct and charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a leadership employee Class felonies and two counts of resisting obstructing peace Class A misdemeanors Left-wing agitators have been clashing with immigration bureaucrats in the suburban Chicago town for months UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CONDEMNS VIOLENCE BUT DODGES QUESTIONS ABOUT PROFESSOR ARRESTED IN ANTI-ICE RIOTSThe day before her arrest she joined a left-wing podcast where she slammed ICE These people are terrorizing our communities and they re setting up shop she revealed referring to federal immigration functionaries I mean in Broadview ICE has been setting up shop in our backyard Just brazenly taking up population guidance to terrorize this very same group And so it felt really critical to join protesters out there to say not in our city not in our name not in our backyard She also criticized moderate liberals TURNING POINT LEADER DEMANDS REPERCUSSIONS FOR UCHICAGO PROFESSOR ARRESTED AT ANTI-ICE RALLY There s no center left she announced You re either resisting or you re complicit Adbelhadi's employment status at the school remains a mystery as school leaders have ignored multiple requests for comment about whether she is still actively teaching courses The University of Chicago reported The Maroon is an independent trainee publication and directed requests for comment to the paper's editors The two top editors of The Maroon declined to comment
