Do most Blacks have a problem with ICE?

Now you get it. Why Voldermort has sent ICE to Chicago. Who elected Mayor Johnson? Predominantly Black voters. Do most like recent illegals taking $300 million in government support that would otherwise go to their community? Nope.

Do they support sending those folks back? What do you think? I know what Trump thinks. That's why he using ICE in this manner. And when he deploys the National Guard, if the murder and violent crime rate are cut in half (as was the case earlier last) month in Memphis how's that going to go over with Black voters who see there neighborhoods as becoming safer. Hmmm...I wonder.

Bridging Black-Brown divisions on ICE

By Monica Eng, Carrie Sehpherd and Justin Kaufmann, Axios News

Nov 11, 2025

Mayor Brandon Johnson is preaching a message of unity on immigration issues, putting him at odds with some Black community leaders again.

Why it matters: President Trump's "Operation Midway Blitz" has resurfaced tensions between Chicago's Black and Brown communities that flared during the 2022-24 migrant crisis, when $300 million spent on new arrivals left resentment in underinvested Black areas.

The big picture: While some Black leaders are leaning into the divisions, others are urging cooperation. Johnson told the United Nations last week that Trump's immigration operation is an "assault on the dignity of all Chicagoans."

What they're saying: "We love [the ICE raids] because this is what we've been asking for," Chicago Flips Red co-founder Danielle Carter-Walters told the "Awake Illinois" podcast last week.

Organizer and former mayoral candidate Jaymal Green said on Instagram, "All the Black people that are getting mad at ICE and Donald Trump alone — you got to get mad at the politicians right here locally."

The other side: "The divisions between Black and Latino people are significant and there are valid concerns, but at this moment, it's suicidal to not be unified," said actor and rapper Vic Mensa in a social post last month.

Zoom out: "The sentiment in the Black community is extremely mixed," Cornel Darden, chair of the Greater Chicagoland Black Chamber of Commerce, told Axios, noting that Green's views "definitely represent a large segment."

Yes, but: Black owners of landscaping, construction and food businesses are losing employees in the raids, and Black real estate businesses made money providing shelter to migrants, Darden said.

Between the lines: Rapper and Chicago School Board member Che "Rhymefest" Smith told Axios, "I see both sides of the debate, but at the end of it all, we have to stand on the side of humanity. We need to use this opportunity to all link arms, otherwise we're missing out on a chance to truly fight back in a robust, effective way."