Cracks in a Sanctuary City: How immigration agents are making arrests based on local police data
The ABC7 I-Team found despite a local ordinance and state law prohibiting collaboration between Illinois law enforcement ...
New to Chicago? Here are resources for immigrants, asylum seekers and more
Find answers to common questions about legal rights, public benefits, housing and Chicago’s sanctuary city policies all in ...
How do Chicago's sanctuary laws protect immigrants?
Each county in Illinois also has a sheriff. The sheriff is an elected position, and sheriffs serve a four-year term. Cook ...
‘Don’t want to go back’: Asylum seekers face deportation anxiety in Chicago
“I’m scared, and I don’t want to go back to Mexico,” said Edith Sanchez Delacruz, the 12-year-old daughter of Briseda Delacruz, who is part of a Waukegan family seeking asylum. United Giving Hope ...
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How Are Chicago Schools Responding to Increased Immigration Enforcement?
In Pilsen, a predominantly Latino neighborhood and historically a neighborhood where Mexican families have immigrated to, a ...
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Photo exhibit examines Black migration
Shore|Lines exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in downtown Chicago looks at Black migration from the Gulf ...
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As Chicago strengthens immigrant protections, downstate officials split on sanctuary laws
SPRINGFIELD – As the Trump administration has begun enacting mass deportations in recent weeks, activists and public ...
A Chicagoan’s journey through incarceration, deportation and the fight for ‘A New Path’
Lee Ragsdale advocated for the publication of a deportation guide for noncitizens navigating a reentry into the country they ...