Chicago’s top migrant official is walking back a prediction from city leaders last month that tens of thousands of migrants would arrive by bus ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention, saying that there is no “credible intel” that the feared surge will occur.
A group of business owners and residents near the United Center say that they’re being negatively impacted by the hundreds of migrants who are living at a nearby shelter and are demanding that the mayor move them. Roger Romanelli, executive director of the Fulton Market Association, told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that he believed everyone should be treated with respect and dignity under the law, but claimed that it’s “chaos and anarchy” at the shelter at 1640 W. Walnut. He cited increased emergency calls to the shelter, fights in the street, garbage, drug usage and other concerns. “Right […]
The federal government is processing U.S. citizenship requests at the fastest clip in a decade, moving rapidly through a backlog that built up during the Trump administration and the pandemic.
Latino voters and leaders say they are enthusiastic about Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, but for her to win their crucial support, they want to know where she stands on issues like the economy, immigration and education.
Trump is putting immigration at the heart of his campaign and pushing the GOP towards a bellicose strategy that hearkens back to the 1950s.
As migrants struggle to obtain legal work authorization — a process that takes months — many look for work in Home Depot parking lots.
The states are seeking to block the rule from taking effect Nov. 1 and providing people known as “Dreamers” access to tax breaks when they sign up for coverage.
A group of migrant day laborers have sued Home Depot, the Chicago Police Department, and the city of Chicago in federal court, alleging ethnically motivated harassment and assault by police officers working secondary employment as security at the store.
A group of migrant day laborers have sued Home Depot, the Chicago Police Department, and the city of Chicago in federal court, alleging ethnically motivated harassment and assault by police officers working secondary employment as security at the store.
Four Venezuelan girls sat cross-legged on the ground Monday night with gags on their lips that said “liberty, peace, dignity and justice “to protest the reelection of their country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro, following increased scrutiny of the country’s electoral practices. Demonstrators held pamphlets behind them in Daley Plaza with statistics about how many people had been arrested and killed since the election. Thousands of miles away in Venezuela, protesters surged in the streets of their home country against what many described as one of the worst moments in the country in over a decade of decline — caused by corruption […]