CHICAGO — The Trump administration’s ongoing immigration enforcement surge brought Congressional Democrats to Chicago on Friday, then forced an abrupt exit by some local officials from a public hearing on the topic.

Reports of federal immigration agents making arrests and tear-gassing neighbors on the North Side led some elected officials to leave the hearing at the Cook County Building to check out the latest development in operations Midway Blitz and At Large in person.

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Illinois, said that at least four people living in her district were “disappeared” as Friday’s hearing unfolded. While the arrests continued away from Friday’s “shadow hearing,” Ramirez told Block Club that the visit offered a valuable perspective for her colleagues who haven’t yet seen federal age

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