Naperville news: Group of workers reportedly detained by agents believed to be ICE while working on roof, homeowner says
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) — A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home.

The alleged actions happened as ICE has been ramping up its operations in both the city and suburbs.

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“They said all workers were rounded up and just taken away indiscriminately,” homeowner Bobby Fischer said. “There was no checking. There was no due diligence in this.”

Fischer and his family were out celebrating his daughter’s birthday when his neighbors alerted him to what they called “police activity” around his home.

“I got frantic texts from my neighbors saying, ‘hey are you guys okay? There’s a police presence all over your house,'” Fischer said.

Neighbors told him masked agents, who they believe to be ICE, arrived at his Naperville home around noon and targeted the crew working on his roof.

“They had to jump off the roof, because to trap them, the agents knocked down the ladders so they could not leave the roof and basically they said either jump or stay up there,” Fischer said.

Fischer said five of the six crew members jumped down and ran. He said one of his neighbors told him one of the crew members injured his leg before he was detained.

What shocked Fischer the most was how agents allegedly detained another crew member who ran out of fear.

“My neighbors witnessed two agents chasing one guy down the street in a residential area, guns drawn,” Fischer said. “A roofer running for his life.”

Fischer said a photo was captured of the roofer after he was detained at gunpoint.

He says five of the six crew members were taken into custody and the one that remained hid up on the roof.

Fischer later learned from the owner of the company that all five of the detained workers were documented.

“This is just people trying to make a living and you’re harming us, the homeowners,” Fischer said. “This isn’t a business, this isn’t you raided a factory. This is a home that you surrounded with guns. I have children I don’t want that here. There was no reason for it to be here.”

ABC7 has reached out to ICE multiple times, but have not received a reply.

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