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"I Wish I Had Made More of a Ruckus"

Ally Henny, a hospital chaplain in Chicago, confronted a team of ICE agents attempting to abduct a Latino worker off the street in broad daylight this week on the city's southeast side.

Pablo Manríquez
Jun 04, 2026
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CHICAGO, IL. — A hospital chaplain was shoved by a federal immigration agent Tuesday morning after she stepped into the street to intervene when ICE agents seized an unidentified Latino man in the South Shore neighborhood — and she’s not sorry she did it.

Ally Henny, a chaplain at a Chicago hospital and a religious leader on the city’s southeast side, told Migrant Insider she was preparing to leave for work around 6:40 a.m. when she heard a man’s voice cut through the morning quiet.

“Ayuda.”

She knew enough Spanish to know what it meant.

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