U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency leading the efforts, hasn’t released any information about the individuals who were detained or why they were sought out.
CHICAGO — Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country.
The Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago on Sunday that includes several federal agencies that have been granted additional authorities to arrest undocumented immigrants in the US,
"The impending raids are a brazen attempt to stomp out the sanctuary city movement and run roughshod over the First Amendment," advocates said.
Among the questions were how the EPA’s environmental justice programs, which bring federal resources to areas heavily hit by pollution, would be affected by the order ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
With two top Trump administration officials in Chicago, federal law enforcement began a “targeted” immigration blitz Sunday, according to a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency did not say how many arrests have taken place so far.
Donald Trump vowed to slash grocery prices as soon as he took office, yet he has barely addressed the cost of food in the whirlwind of executive orders he signed in his first week.
CHICAGO - The head of the union representing Chicago police officers called out President Donald Trump’s pardons of people convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol building. John Catanzara Jr. made the comments in a video posted on the FOP Chicago Lodge 7 YouTube page.
In a since-deleted message, Selena Gomez, who’s spoken openly about her Mexican heritage, tearfully addressed deportations in the United States: “I wish I could do something but I can’t.”
Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks hopes the promise of President Donald Trump's second term will return his South Side of Chicago neighborhood to its rightful path.