Article in Poynter by Angela Fu. 10/22/25
Headline: “Tear gas, fear and federal secrecy: How Chicago journalists are covering Trump’s immigration policies while living through them”
Subhead: “‘It’s really exhausting, mentally and physically. But somebody has to record history’”
“. . .The tips pour in at all hours: sightings of agents in all parts of Chicago. Many of them are masked, in the city to find undocumented immigrants. They move quickly, but sometimes, Garcia Hernandez — whose beat is the largely Latino neighborhoods of Pilsen, Little Village and Back of the Yards but whose coverage area has since expanded — gathers just enough information to make it to the aftermath of a raid. . .”
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