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Machine guns on the southeast side. This is ridiculous.

ISIS terrorizing the southeast side.

What the federal government calls immigration enforcement looks more like an occupying army

to residents of a working-class neighborhood in Chicago. It's Thursday, October, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.

I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, federal immigration agents from ICE and CBP have used aggressive tactics and

military hardware to make arrests and suppress protests.

President Trump claims his crackdown has led to the arrest of thousands of violent criminals

in cities including L.A, D.C., Memphis,

and Chicago.

But we'll hear how the government's immigration dragnet has ensnared possibly hundreds of American citizens,

including elected officials and kids, sometimes detained by ICE for days without a lawyer or a phone call to their loved ones.

Also, one Florida family describes the pain of losing their teenage son to another kind of prolonged detention.

The Qadurs have been trying to secure the release of their son from Israeli custody since he was taken

from a family home in the West Bank eight months ago.

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