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.
More than 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived more than two decades in the United States can legally remain another 18 months.
More Americans say immigration should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2025, as the country heads toward a new Republican administration in which President-elect Donald Trump has promised the mass deportations of migrants and an end to birthright citizenship.
Republican scrutiny of border shelters is intensifying, and President-elect Donald Trump’s allies consider them a magnet for illegal immigration. Many are nonprofits that rely on federal funding, including $650 million under one program last year alone.
Submitting financial aid forms this college application season has become a potentially life-altering family decision for high school seniors with undocumented parents.