Ranking Democrats on two congressional committees are demanding an investigation and expressing “outrage” over an aggressive immigration raid on a South Shore apartment last week.

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid on Oct 1 at 7500 S. South Shore Drive.

But Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen, told the Sun-Times agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. A resident in the neighborhood said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and, and putting them into U-Haul vans.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

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