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ALBANY PARK — Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33rd) is speaking out after federal immigration authorities led her into an alley and warned her that she was “impeding” them in Albany Park Tuesday morning, she told Block Club.
Rodriguez-Sanchez was in a car following agents driving in a black SUV near the intersection of Avers and Leland avenues around 10:35 a.m. Tuesday. The alderwoman was in her car with her Chief Of Staff Veronica Tirado-Mercado honking horns and blowing whistles to alert neighbors to the presence of federal agents, she said.
“They went into an alley because they wanted to get us secluded,” Rodriguez-Sanchez said. “And I fol