About this episode

Reporters investigate a controversial immigration raid in Chicago that led to the arrest of 37 immigrants.

In the middle of a September night last year, hundreds of agents stormed a Chicago apartment building, some rappelling down from a Black Hawk helicopter. They arrested 37 immigrants and claimed that two were confirmed members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — but then never identified any of them. Reporters Melissa Sanchez and Sebastian Rotella set out to track down the people arrested, and, along with a team of ProPublica reporters, they uncovered a very different story behind the raid. Read the original reporting here: https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges Support our journalism by donating at propublica.org/donate .

People in this episode

Guests: Melissa Sanchez, Sebastian Rotella

Topics covered

• immigration
• law enforcement
• journalism
• Chicago
• Venezuela
• raid
• investigation

Keywords

• immigration raid
• Chicago
• Tren de Aragua
• ProPublica
• journalism
• law enforcement
• investigation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ProPublica, Tren de Aragua

Places: Chicago, Venezuela, Black Hawk

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