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Nov. 5, 2025, 2:14 PM ESTBy Natasha KoreckiCHICAGO — The first thing that hit Sarah Parise was an unfamiliar, pungent smell. She looked down at her ginger-haired 2-year-old, Leia, who was taking a turn pushing her own stroller near a grassy field where they had stopped to play on a Saturday morning walk. Then, it kicked in. “All of a sudden, my eyes were just burning and I couldn’t breathe,” Parise said. Leia began to scream: “Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” Parise quickly put Leia in her stroller. She ran as fast as she could down the wide streets of her Old Irving Park neighborhood, past the towering trees with their leaves full of fall color. As she struggled with her own breathing, Leia wailed in pain and terror. As Parise raced home, she heard whistles and cars honking, she said. She saw a blur of armed men dressed in fatigues. Multiple reports from that day, Oct. 25, detailed how Border Patrol agents conducting immigration enforcement in the neighborhood confronted residents, leading a federal judge to question an official in court over the use of tear gas there “without any warning.”Sarah Parise with her husband, Joey Kahl, and 2-year-old daughter, Leia. Courtesy of Sarah PariseNearly a week later, with a lingering sting in her throat, Parise recounted to NBC News the fear she and her daughter experienced as a result.Parise and more than a half-dozen neighbors underscored in interviews that federal agents have been the catalyst for chaos and clashes. They said that despite President Donald Trump’s depiction of Chicago as a “war zone,” the biggest disturbance or encounter with violence that they have witnessed in their neighborhood was not from criminals — but when immigration agents swept through. “I didn’t know what happens when a 2-year-old — they’re so little and their little lungs and everything — get tear gas in them? And it’s on you?” Parise said. “I didn’t see a ton of what was going on, because my only thing in my mind was like, ‘I have to get home, and we have to get this rinsed off.’” That day, Parise said, she blew through her front door as her husband stared on, startled. She shouted “We just got hit with tear gas!” and headed to the bathroom, where she rinsed her daughter repeatedly, then herself, with water. When that didn’t work, she said, she doused them with milk. Parise showed a selfie she snapped of herself that day, wrapped in a towel, eyes red with tears, face scrunched in pain. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that the actions in Old Irving Park resulted in the arrest of one “criminal illegal alien from Mexico, who has previously been arrested for assault.” She added, in part, “To safely clear the area after multiple warnings and the crowd continuing to advance on them, Border Patrol had to deploy crowd control measures.”U.S. federal agents detain a person in the Old Irving Park on Oct. 25 as neighbors shouted in protest and filmed the encounter.James Hotchkiss / REUTERSAs Parise worries over her 2-year-old suffering from the effects of a chemical agent deployed by immigration officers, several Chicagoans expressed fears that tumultuous deportation efforts could upend their lives and potentially put children in danger. The immigration crackdown known as “Operation Midway Blitz has fanned out across Chicago and its suburbs since September. Asked in a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday whether violent encounters involving immigration agents had gone too far, Trump said: “They haven’t gone far enough.”McLaughlin added in her statement: “Our officers are facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, abusers, and gang members. Secretary Noem’s message to the rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down.”Parise and her daughter are among a growing number of people who say they have inadvertently been exposed to chemical agents or witnessed troubling scenes by immigration agents. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officers have increasingly gone into neighborhoods — including in Rogers Park, Little Village, Lakeview, Albany Park and Belmont Cragin — targeting people for arrest while they were selling tamales, attending church, or doing landscape or construction work. Area residents, education leaders, activists, local elected officials and federal judges have decried agents’ actions in residential areas as overly aggressive and, at times, dangerous. This led to a federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order Oct. 9 to curb officers from using aggressive tactics, including tear gas, when they are not under imminent threat.In Broadview, outside an immigration detention facility, residents have complained of their children feeling the impacts of chemical agents while in their backyards, or even inside their homes. Chicago Public Schools have had to move elementary school recess indoors after tear gas was deployed and teachers have complained of helicopters hovering over their schools, scaring students. Protesters are regular presences in a “First Amendment” zone in front of an ICE processing facility in Broadview, outside of Chicago.Jamie Kelter Davis / Getty ImagesMost recently, schools in north suburban Evanston were impacted. On Friday, Border Patrol agents deployed chemical agents in the city. Citing nearby immigration activities, all schools in the district were placed on lockdown, according to the mayor. “Let me be extremely clear for all Chicago media: We are NOT targeting schools,” a Department of Homeland Security statement read.A DHS spokesperson said agents were in the area to arrest five undocumented individuals “whose criminal histories included criminal trespass and multiple illegal entries into the country.” “A hostile crowd surrounded agents and their vehicle, and began verbally abusing them and spitting on them. As Border patrol arrested one individual, who actively resisted arrest, pepper spray was deployed … to deter the agitator and disperse the crowd,” the spokesperson said. Federal immigration agents use tear gas to disperse protesters in Chicago02:18Allie Harned, a social worker with Chute Middle School in Evanston, said at a news conference Friday that agents’ actions were unacceptable. “I witnessed some horror today, a block away from Chute Middle School, and this was awful. There were ICE agents and CPB agents pointing guns at community members, spraying pepper spray in the faces of community members … within eyesight of our Chute Middle School students,” Harned said. “This was terrifying. It was terrifying to our community members. It was terrifying to a student who happened to be in a car and witnessed it. It is not okay.”Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said, in a new strategy, the city’s police department is appearing on the scene of immigration arrests, identifying agents by badge number and documenting the impact of their activities on residents. “There’s only one entity causing serious violence in Evanston right now, and that is the federal government,” Biss told NBC News. Federal agents have regularly deployed tear gas in immigration enforcement operations in Chicago.Joshua Lott / The Washington Post via Getty ImagesAfter the Old Irving Park clash drew widespread headlines — and outrage — including over a confrontation between a 67-year-old runner and agents on his street, DHS pushed back on narratives that were circulating. The resident exited the vehicle and uttered an expletive. His hands go up as the brief footage provided by DHS then cuts off. A statement from the man’s running group excoriated DHS for breaking the man’s ribs, accusing them of excessive force. Border Patrol commander appears to throw tear gas at protestors00:30“HERE’S THE REAL STORY,” the DHS post on X started in all caps. “Border Patrol agents were surrounded and boxed in by a group of agitators.” It then went on to play a brief video clip.When shown the words in the post, George, a father who lives in the neighborhood and witnessed the incident, laughed. “Agitators? Brian ran out in his bare feet and Blackhawks pajamas,” he said of his neighbor. “I was wearing a duck costume.” George, who asked not to use his last name, said he had just returned from the YMCA and he and his two young daughters rushed to change into their Halloween costumes to make it to the nearby parade. When he heard commotion outside, he ran out in his all-yellow costume, repurposed from The Man with the Yellow Hat outfit of Curious George fame. He described a confusing scene where he could neither tell if someone had been detained nor distinguish immigration agents’ vehicles from that of residents. Looking on and standing beside a vehicle, he was suddenly thrown to the ground by an agent, according to a video reviewed by NBC News. He said he thought he was under arrest, but then, suddenly it all stopped and he got up and moved farther to the side of the street. His head hurt for days and he was treated at urgent care for a mild traumatic brain injury, he said. George said he wondered why agents didn’t leave sooner to de-escalate the situation. He believes, based on what he saw, they had plenty of space to drive away, despite agents’ claims of being boxed in. When he returned home, his 5-year-old, who watched the episode from the front door, made a striking comment: “‘Dad, I just don’t understand who the bad guys are.’”When asked what the most violent episode was that he’s witnessed in his neighborhood, George didn’t hesitate: “1000% this was,” he said of the Oct. 25 event. Neighborhood resident Brian Kolp, a former Cook County prosecutor and now a private attorney, said he felt immigration agents haven’t been carrying out deportation operations in the highest crime areas of the city. “Whereas, in Old Irving Park, the worst we could probably do is try to blow them away with our leaf blowers,” Kolp said. “No one around here is in a gang. No one around here is rolling around with any guns. Obviously, in other parts of the city, that’s not necessarily going to be the case.” Parise questioned the government’s financial justification for its operation in Old Irving Park, which yielded one arrest of an undocumented immigrant but had far-reaching effects on children and other residents. “What was the return on that? What did you spend to have all those people out there for the day with all of their fake tactical gear and their tear gas and their whatever?” Parise asked. “Also then, what did it take from all the people around here, who are now scared and completely spooked?” Natasha KoreckiNatasha Korecki is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
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Nov. 11, 2025, 1:35 PM EST / Updated Nov. 11, 2025, 3:06 PM ESTBy Allan Smith and Raquel Coronell UribeWhen President Donald Trump hosted Republican senators for lunch at the White House on Oct. 21, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, came prepared. Moreno, who was born in Colombia, has become a key voice on policy involving the Latin American nation — and one that’s deeply critical of the current left-wing president, Gustavo Petro. Two days before the lunch, Trump, at odds with Petro for months, posted on social media that Petro was “an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs” in Colombia. Trump said he was stopping all U.S. aid to the country and told reporters he would soon announce new tariffs on Colombia. Moreno wanted to encourage Trump to take a more targeted approach — directly aimed at Petro. To do so, the senator brought along a document titled “The Trump Doctrine For Colombia and the Western Hemisphere.” In addition to five policy ideas, the one-page outline featured large images of Petro and Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, in orange prison jumpsuits. The images appear to be generated by artificial intelligence. NBC News obtained the memo from a person familiar with the episode.Now that document is at the center of an even further strain in diplomatic relationships between Colombia and the U.S. On Sunday, the publication Cambio Colombia first reported on the existence of the document when it discovered that the White House had posted a photo from the Oct. 21 event showing James Blair, a deputy chief of staff, holding Moreno’s memo. Petro posted on X that he was recalling the Colombian ambassador to the U.S. for the second time in a month and demanding to know why he is being portrayed “as if I were a prisoner,” calling the print-out “a brutal disrespect” to his supporters and nation. And on Monday, Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio told journalists in Santa Marta that her government had “sent verbal notes to the United States through our diplomatic representation” to “request clarification regarding” Moreno’s memo.The episode also marks the latest chapter in the use of fake images in politics. The Trump administration has made extensive use of AI-generated images and videos in online political messaging, with the president himself often sharing them on social media. The White House directed NBC News to Moreno’s office for comment. Moreno’s office declined to comment.Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is a key voice on Republican policy toward Latin America.Daniel Heuer / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileMoreno, who was born in Bogota and immigrated to the U.S. as a child, is among a few lawmakers advocating on Colombia policy to the president. A Treasury Department official told NBC News that both Moreno and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who endorsed Trump’s call to impose new tariffs on the South American nation, have been backchanneling on Colombia to the White House for a while, with their advocacy culminating at the Rose Garden lunch in October. This person, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, added that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been heavily involved as well.Tensions between the two nations have risen in recent months with the U.S. building up its military deployment in the Caribbean in an effort to target Venezuela. U.S. forces have killed dozens aboard boats officials say are trafficking drugs into the U.S. as lawmakers in both parties have called for the Trump administration to share evidence to support its claims.Moreno’s memo called for the president to designate more cartels as foreign terrorist organizations; target Petro, his family and associates for further sanctions; and launch an investigation into Petro’s campaign finances, among other measures. The proposal did not include advocacy for new Colombian tariffs or the cutting off of aid to the country. It also did not call for the U.S. to engage in a regime-change effort.Moreno’s document is below. (NBC News added in the watermarks indicating the images are fake.) Three days after the lunch with senators, the Treasury Department announced sanctions against Petro, his family and a government official over allegations of involvement in the global drug trade, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying in a statement that Petro “has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity.” Petro has strongly denied involvement with the drug trade and has said he will fight the sanctions in U.S. courts.Trump has yet to announce new tariffs on Colombia. And CNN reported last week that there has been no interruption yet to U.S. assistance to the country.Petro, a socialist, accused the U.S. of killing a fisherman last month in one of its attacks on a boat the U.S. claimed was involved in drug smuggling. The U.S. revoked Petro’s visa during the United Nations General Assembly in September after the Colombian leader spoke at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York and called for U.S. soldiers to resist Trump.Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks in Bogota on Oct. 24.Ovidio Gonzalez / Colombian Presidency via AFP-Getty ImagesWriting for Time magazine, Petro on Sunday countered Trump’s claims, saying that his government had delivered “record cocaine seizures” and that the U.S. government’s support “was crucial in this fight.”“Whatever the attitudes of the current administration, I will continue to pursue a counter-narcotics and broader security policy that is in the interests of Colombians and Americans alike,” he wrote.Petro himself has called out Moreno as leading the charge against him. After the Trump administration announced the sanctions on him last month, Petro posted on X that Moreno’s “threat has come true.”Separately, Moreno pushed back on claims Petro made that he and Trump sought to overthrow him in a coup.“That’s 100% completely false,” Moreno wrote on social media last month. “The United States wants the people of Colombia to have a free and fair election, as scheduled, without any influence from outside agitators or narco traffickers.”Colombian officials who spoke with NBC News said they believed the country avoided new tariffs because of the advocacy of some Colombians in government and in business who are close to both Moreno and Trump-allied lawmakers in South Florida. Andrés Pastrana, who was the president of Colombia from 1998 through 2002 and aligned with the right, said Moreno and Republican Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez and Mario Diaz-Balart, all of Florida, have had “big influence” in convincing the Trump administration. He also said the U.S. should not equate all Colombians with Petro and his views, adding that imposing tariffs on the entire country could carry a significant “political risk” and help to “re-elect the left” by giving Petro the ability to tap into nationalistic fervor. Allan SmithAllan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.Raquel Coronell UribeRaquel Coronell Uribe is a breaking news reporter. Julie Tsirkin and Michelle Acevedo contributed.
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Nov. 4, 2025, 6:06 PM EST / Updated Nov. 4, 2025, 6:35 PM ESTBy Phil HelselA UPS plane with three crew members aboard crashed as it was taking off late Tuesday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, officials said.UPS Flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 p.m. local time after departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.”At this time, we have not confirmed any injuries/casualties,” UPS said in a statement.A spokesperson for Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said injuries had been reported. “It crashed on takeoff. Multiple injuries,” the spokesperson, Allison Martin, said in a message.Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asked for prayers for the plane’s pilots and crew. “The situation is serious. Please pray for the families affected. I’m headed to Louisville now,” he said on X. The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, was headed to Honolulu, the FAA said.Video from the scene showed a fire and black smoke rising from an area appearing to be near the tarmac. Police encourage people in areas north of the airport to the Ohio River to shelter in place.Greenberg said in a phone interview with NBC affiliate WAVE of Louisville that the plane’s fuel load was causing the fire on the ground.“All of our emergency resources are on the scene right now,” he said.UPS has a large presence in Louisville. UPS Air Operations is headquartered in the city, where it also has its main hub.UPS began its overnight air service with its main hub at the airport, known by the letters SDF, in 1982. UPS is the biggest employer in the Louisville area, with around 25,000 people working for the company there. There are around 400 flights arriving and departing each day at its hub, the city says on its website.The FAA said it would investigate, along with the National Transportation Safety Board.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.Phil HelselPhil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.Madison Lambert and Insiya Gandhi contributed.
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