"On a recent afternoon, a woman drove across town to Chicago’s South Side with 20 bags of groceries in the trunk after answering a call on a school group chat to deliver food to families. The instructions were simple: receive a list of addresses and phone numbers; pick up the groceries at a North Side church, text recipients with photos of the groceries. If you’re followed, don’t go to the next house.
“I used to not consider myself that political, but I wanted to help,” the woman said. (Like several others interviewed for this story, she spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation from the federal government.)
~ Kim Bellware, Ben Strauss and María Luisa Paúl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/23/ice-chicago-resistance-immigrants/
And why should she be afraid?
"Just before arriving outside a three-story apartment building, she used a translation app to send a message to a family living inside. She grabbed four bags from the trunk, climbed the steps and knocked on the door. A middle-aged woman answered, standing alongside a young girl and a man.
“Thank you for coming!” the woman, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, said in Spanish. She hasn’t left her house lately, she said, out of fear of ICE. Her neighbor had been detained just a few weeks ago and hadn’t returned.
The driver is part of a food delivery network that supplies about 50 families with weekly groceries from the Greater Chicago Food Depository, according to organizers."
~ Kim Bellware, Ben Strauss and María Luisa Paúl
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