Chicago state lawmaker says he was stopped by immigration agents at gunpoint

CHICAGO - A state lawmaker from Chicago said federal immigration agents stopped him at gunpoint on Tuesday on the city's Northwest Side.

What we know:

State Rep. Hoan Huynh (D-Chicago) said he was in his car on the city’s Northwest Side doing "community ICE patrol" when he was surrounded by six Customs and Border Patrol agents, according to a news release.

Huynh said one of the agents pulled a gun on him.

"They tried to bash in our car’s windows while we were doing Know Your Rights patrol in the community," Huynh said in a Facebook post. "Thankfully, we weren’t physically harmed, but this was federal agents using violent intimidation trying to silence us. If they can pull a gun on an elected official, there’s no end to the terror they will continue reigning on our communities. We m