The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building

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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-araguahttps://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-chargesSupport our journalism by donating at propublica.org/donate.