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Nearly four months after the high-profile immigration raid of a South Shore apartment complex, Illinois officials are launching an investigation into claims that the building’s managers played a…
Read more Illinois officials launch investigation into landlord’s role in South Shore raidIt’s a story repeating itself: Border Patrol agents flooding immigrant neighborhoods, showing dramatic force, storming Home Depot parking lots and preying on people at courthouses. Those arrests erupted…
Read more Chicago activists share blueprint for resisting Border Patrol: ‘Chicago clearly is front and center’The Texas National Guard has departed Illinois, ending a futile 41-day deployment in which its soldiers spent less than 24 hours working in support of President Donald Trump’s…
Read more Texas National Guard departs IllinoisFederal agents released preschool teacher Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano on Wednesday night, freeing the beloved local educator whose arrest at a North Center day care made international news.…
Read more Chicago day care teacher arrested by ICE released: ‘I am so grateful’During a press conference about a Midwestern immigration enforcement operation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said federal agents have not detained U.S. citizens. Chicago, the center of the…
Read more Immigration agents have detained dozens of US citizensBarbers paused haircuts to look out windows and bakers in aprons peered out doorways along West 26th Street in Little Village to the sounds of whistles and chants…
Read more Students walk out of Little Village schools, hold march in protest of recent ICE activityA senior Border Patrol official who has become the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles and Chicago is due in court Tuesday to take…
Read more Top Border Patrol official due in court to answer questions about Chicago immigration crackdownA Facebook group that shared information on sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Chicago area was taken down by Meta following pressure from the Justice…
Read more Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenesFollowing weeks of increasingly tense protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in suburban Broadview, village officials on Saturday said ICE was retaliating against the…
Read more Broadview village leaders condemn ICE presence in suburb and threats of greater enforcement actionsBROADVIEW, Ill. (WLS) — There was an amplified presence of federal agents Saturday in Broadview after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on social media that the Trump…
Read more Anti-ICE protests continue at Broadview facility, downtown Chicago as federal presence growsLocal immigration advocates expressed anger and worry after a U.S. citizen was briefly detained — and footage of him handcuffed was posted on social media by a high-ranking…
Read more Local immigration advocates outraged after video of a U.S. citizen briefly detained during an Elgin raid is posted online by DHS Secretary NoemHours after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fatally shot a man in Franklin Park, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, a Democrat from Chicago, called for a full…
Read more Illinois Democrats call for investigation of fatal shooting of Franklin Park man by ICE agentCHICAGO (WLS) — A large protest against immigration enforcement blocked traffic in downtown Chicago for hours on Tuesday evening. “We must organize. We must stay in the streets…
Read more Protest blocks downtown traffic after 4 arrested in Lawndale as part of operation ‘Midway Blitz’CHICAGO (WLS) — Immigrant advocates say they have already received a large volume of calls to their hotline about Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounters in the Chicago area…
Read more ICE confirms 4 Chicago-area arrests as Trump administration’s ‘Midway Blitz’ operation gets underway(CNN) — Immigration enforcement operations are ramping up in Chicago and Boston, marking the latest escalation between the Trump administration and Democratic-led cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The Department of Homeland Security on…
Read more Federal immigration operations ramping up in Chicago and Boston as other sanctuary cities are on alert