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In Skokie, people rushed out of their homes on Harding Avenue as, they said, federal agents targeted two plumbers working on a property on Friday afternoon.

Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was seen leading operations on the ground.

Witnesses said the two workers are U.S. citizens and did not end up getting detained as federal agents abruptly left the area.

Morgan Krupinsk, the homeowner who hired those workers, said it was disturbing to see them targeted.

Krupinsk says he voted for President Donald Trump in the election, but he no longer believes these operations are being carried out properly.

"I mean, two workers, American citizens, working on my lawn, for them to stop and profile them and ask them for papers, there's no constitutional right for them to do that," Krupinsk said. Click here for more.

An appeals court ruled in favor of the Trump administration Friday and stopped a judge from trying to get daily updates from a Border Patrol official about the government's immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.

The court said the order from U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis put her "in position of an inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator" and would have turned her into a supervisor of Greg Bovino, a violation of the separation of powers.

Ellis, concerned about allegations of excessive force and the use of tear gas against protesters, wanted daily updates from Bovino, starting Wednesday. But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals intervened that day and suspended the order before further freezing it Friday. Click here for more.

When Jose Jeronimo Guardian showed up at a Spanish language traffic court this week, he didn't expect to be detained and face expulsion from a country he'd lived in for more than two decades.

Guardian, 48, was scheduled to appear Monday in a courtroom where a county-provided translator would aid communication with about a dozen Spanish-speaking defendants who face charges from traffic infractions like his - two charges of driving under the influence of alcohol - to serious felony charges.

Guardian never made it into the courtroom.

Instead, an agent who said he was from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement questioned him in a lobby of the Clinton County Courthouse, handcuffed him, then loaded him into the back of an unmarked car and drove him to a Missouri detention center where he would await deportation.

Detentions at state and county courthouses would be banned under legislation passed early Friday morning. The state legislature approved a bill barring immigration arrests in and around county courthouses, and nearby parking lots and sidewalks. House Bill 1312, which would also allow Illinois residents to sue for civil rights violations, still must be signed by Gov. JB Pritzker.

Though instances of ICE detentions in Illinois have been centered on Chicago since President Donald Trump began "Operation Midway Blitz" in September, Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday there has been an uptick recently in ICE activity in central and southern Illinois.

"They are literally targeting people who are brown and Black, whether you are undocumented or not, and they are tackling people, detaining people for hours, zip-tying people who are U.S. citizens. So, they're indiscriminately grabbing people who don't look like the ICE agents, typically, and holding them or mistreating them," Pritzker said. Click here for more,

Federal agents arrested three people after a crash during a north suburban immigration operation on Friday, officials confirmed.

Neighbors say the terrifying moments unfolded earlier in the day at Evanston's intersection of Asbury and Oakton, just a few blocks from an elementary school. On Friday night, the Trump administration confirmed that three U.S. citizens were arrested.

Witnesses say a man and a woman in a red car were following the agents to warn people of their presence. That's when, the witnesses said, the agents slammed on their brakes just past the intersection, causing the people in the car following them to crash into them.

Neighbors say the agents then violently pulled the man and woman out of their car, and when members of a neighborhood watch patrol came to see what happened, one agent allegedly pulled a gun on one of the bystanders and threatened to pepper-spray him.

Evanston Fire Department paramedics responded to provide medical care for those exposed to pepper spray, Evanston police said in a statement.

Late Friday night, the Department of Homeland Security accused people who watched the incident happen of being "aggressive," saying in part, "As agents tried to make a U-turn, the red car crashed into Border Patrol. A hostile crowd surrounded agents and their vehicle, and began verbally abusing them and spitting on them."

Witnesses say the agents threw both the man and the woman into their vehicle and drove away. It is unclear where they were taken, and ABC7 blurred their faces, because we do not know if they have been charged with any crimes. Click here for more.