CHICAGO (Reuters) -As the shrill sound of whistles echoed through a parking garage in Chicago’s North Side on Tuesday, two people flung their car doors open, ducked inside and shrank down into their seats. Outside, a convoy of federal immigration enforcement vehicles that had arrived in the area just minutes prior sped off.

“We just saw a bunch of guys with whistles that chased them out,” said Luke, a landscaper who was working nearby and declined to share his full name.

The Trump administration in early September launched a deportation crackdown in the Chicago area, targeting what it said were hardened criminals among immigrants in the U.S. without legal status, though many noncriminals have been swept up in raids.

Since then, the piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide me

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