As immigrant communities across Chicagoland entered a third week of fear and uncertainty in the shadow of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, some business owners and workers from Elgin to Chicago Heights took action Monday: They closed their businesses and stayed home from work as part of a national Day Without Immigrants.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting El Salvador on Monday to press a friendly government to do more to meet Trump administration demands for a major crackdown on immigration amid turmoil in Washington over the status of the government’s main foreign development agency.
President Donald Trump’s administration is ending protections that shielded roughly 350,000 Venezuelans from deportation, leaving them with two months before they lose their right to work in the U.S.
More than 300 people rallied for immigrants’ rights and marched two miles in Waukegan criticizing President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts.
The Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, U.S. officials said Friday.
In a statement sent to The Beacon-News Wednesday evening, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said a person’s legal status is not considered when Aurora police carry out their duties. That information is also not something the department collects or maintains for the purposes of deportation, he said.
A resident is speaking out after a teacher at Rosa Parks Middle School in Dixmoor made comments supporting mass deportation.
Northwest Indiana undocumented immigrants have been living in a state of uncertainty and fear amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation orders and the state legislature’s proposed immigration House Bill 1393, area lawyers said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the Trump administration has revoked a decision that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation, putting some at risk of being removed from the country in about two months.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.