Targeted immigration enforcement operations by multiple agencies were launched in Chicago Sunday, with top Trump administration officials in the city to oversee it all. One of President Trump's many campaign slogans was,
Immigrant Solidarity DuPage wants community members to know it has their back. As the long-promised federal immigration blitz on Chicago seemed to get underway Sunday, the Wheaton-based nonprofit
ICE has not released details about Chicago arrests this week, leaving Dr. Phil McGraw’s video of Sai Pavuluri’s detention as one of the few tacitly confirmed cases.
CHICAGO - Two Chicago-based nonprofits have reported receiving threats due to their positions on immigration, amid ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the country, including in Chicago. Both organizations, Healthy Hood Chicago and the Pilsen Food Pantry, are located in the Pilsen neighborhood.
Several feet away, Dr. Phil McGraw — a TV talk show host who, along with his camera crew, was embedded with Homeland Security agents as they launched an immigration blitz in the Chicago area on Sunday — opined on the arrest in keeping with his role of de facto spokesman for the operation.
Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.
Despite the top cop’s attempt to reassure the tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants and their relatives who live in Chicago, Trump administration officials have repeatedly vowed to deport everyone who is in the United States without authorization.
Chicago-based American Business Immigration Coalition warns of major economic consequences of mass deportations.
Sources told NBC News that federal enforcement agencies will not conduct an operation in Aurora on Thursday as originally planned.
It appears the north county has been a target for members of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week. Even before U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy came to Mayville to voice his support for the Trump administration’s decision to go after criminals who are not citizens living in the United States,
A week into Donald Trump’s second presidency and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, federal officers are operating with a new sense of mission, knowing that “nobody gets a free pass anymore.