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The Okay, welcome to the show this week, everybody. I am joined by my two co-host, Tom and Aaron.

And we have joining us this week two very special guests from the great city of Chicago.

We have with this Antonio Gutierrez and Evelyn Vargas.

They are with the organized communities against deportations.

And I wanted to have you all on because obviously everybody is talking about Chicago, right?

Like, you know, Trump is sending troops to Chicago, National Guard troops from, I guess, Texas, from other states.

And I might add, not sending their best either.

It's definitely not.

Not indeed.

Guys, you can't even chase away a guy in a petty father.

Not good. But, but yeah, no, I kind of wanted to just, like, dig in a little bit to see sort of

what's going on, what y'all are dealing with, what you've seen since the beginning of the year.

Just as a little bit of an introduction, organized communities against deportations is a group of

undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid organizers, building a resistance movement against

deportations and the criminalization of immigrants and people of color in Chicago and surrounding

areas. And I, as a result, felt like y'all would probably be the best ones to kind of give us a little bit of a

debriefer on what's going on. So maybe the best place for us to start this discussion would be with

an introduction to Operation Midway Blitz, which the Trump administration announced on September 8th, about a month ago.

Can you all tell us, like, what is Operation Midway Blitz and how have you seen it play out on the ground so far?

Yeah, I can start.

Again, Antonio, I prefer to pronounce they them. I'm one of the co-founders of Oked, and I've been around since Okar started doing

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