Operation in the Most Conservative Neighborhood
A Border Patrol operation seized people working in the front yard of a home in Edison Park, Chicago, transferred them in a parking lot in a neighboring suburb to a prisoner van, and was met by neighbors blowing whistles and shouting at the agents.
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On an October 2025 afternoon, Border Patrol agents removed people working in the front yard of a home on Oconto Avenue in Edison Park — the most conservative neighborhood in Chicago, by the local accounting — and drove them in convoy to a parking lot behind an office building in Niles, where they were transferred to a prisoner van. A CBP helicopter circled the convoy. The chief was on scene but stayed back. The neighborhood gathered as the operation continued.
“You’re in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here,” a neighbor told the agents. Whistles followed the convoy as it moved. Filming continued from sidewalks and porches. CBP, in turn, made a show of pointing cameras at protesters and at press IDs.
The processing happened in a parking lot west of Caldwell, south of Jarvis. An agent in a tattered American-flag gaiter told a photographer they were done for the day. A straw hat and a neon vest sat on the dashboard of the prisoner van, headed toward the Broadview detention staging area.