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Retired Chicago journalists raised a collective alarm over unlawful ICE dragnets.
Their open letter — “You know us” — uses decades of earned trust to warn the public.
Chicago communities have responded with solidarity, resistance, and mutual protection.
Edwin Eisendrath and Phil Ponce, long-time host of “Chicago Tonight,” a weekly television magazine on WTTW-TV, begin from a shared place of moral clarity about ICE’s draconian tactics in the city. Phil spearheaded an effort of local journalists to push back in a powerful letter to the public that began with the words: “You know us.” The letter becomes a reminder that credibility isn’t a keepsake — it’s a tool, and when a city sees neighbors seized for civil offenses, that tool has to be used. What stands out is how quickly ordinary Chicagoans converted fear into strategy: whistles as warning systems, school runs as acts of protection, and food drives as quiet refusals to let intimidation decide who gets to move freely.
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