WASHINGTON — For three weeks, former Chicagoan Nick Albano has watched thousands of National Guardsmen walk, and in some cases, beautify the streets of Washington, D.C.
He’s also amassed chilling tales of ICE enforcements — rideshare drivers plucked from their cars, leaving their passengers across town. Albano describes the tension in the nation’s capital from President Donald Trump’s crime and immigration mission as a growing “powder keg,” and he’s anxiously watching to see what may happen in his former hometown of Chicago.
“In Chicago, it feels like the powder keg is there. In D.C., I think the powder keg is growing. I’ve had friends who have been in Ubers or have been in situations where people around them have been stolen and arrested and taken to who knows where, and you can feel th