The ominous letters went to hundreds of state and local officials across the U.S. two days before Christmas. It was a potential blueprint for how the Trump administration may attack “sanctuary” jurisdictions that resist mass deportations.
Sister JoAnn Persch and Sister Pat Murphy have devoted their lives advocating for local and federal immigration legislation to fix a broken system.
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported the incoming Trump administration was planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago.
“We are connected by God. We both lost children,” Hanan Shaheen tells president after discussing the dehumanization of Palestinians.
CBP One has brought nearly 1 million people to the U.S. on two-year permits with eligibility to work but could go away once President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Comité de 100, mostly made up of Mexican American business owners, will advocate for a pathway to legalization for long-standing members of the Mexican immigrant community.
Dulce Ortiz, the executive director of the Mano a Mano Family Resource Center and a Waukegan Township trustee, said she is hearing a lot of people, particularly those in mixed families, express dread over what might happen to such families, “Dreamers” and other immigrants.
Donald Trump and his allies are counting on this “self-deportation,” the idea that life can be made unbearable enough to make people leave.
Chicago officials are mobilizing a legal and resource playbook to stop federal immigration agents from carrying out raids at businesses, shelters, police lock-ups and beyond.
Migrants fleeing violence in Latin American are finding violence and fear of mass deportations under a new Trump admininistration as they settle in Chicago.