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Immigration raid in Chicago: A squalid building, a tip to the Feds, and then ‘straight-up chaos’
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Windows are boarded up at an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, where federal agents staged a massive raid.
PHOTO: TODD HEISLER/NYTIMES
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Julie Bosman, Hamed Aleaziz, Jesus Jimenez, Brent McDonald and Arijeta Lajka
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CHICAGO – On a humid September night in Chicago, Mr Cameo Polk was asleep in his fifth-floor apartment when he heard the thump thump thump of a helicopter overhead.
Outside, hundreds of men with masks and rifles were scurrying around the building. He briefly wondered if an invasion was underway.
