Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove visited Chicago on Sunday to observe immigration enforcement operations. While details of the operation remain undisclosed, the visit has heightened concerns within immigrant communities who have been anticipating large-scale arrests.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove made a visit to Chicago on Sunday to personally observe immigration enforcement operations, a practice frequently highlighted by President Donald Trump. Details regarding the operations, such as specific locations and the number of arrests made, were not disclosed publicly on Sunday.
Bove's presence in the nation's third-largest city was to directly witness the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement efforts and to provide support to federal agencies involved, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, according to U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Chad Gilmartin. Repeated attempts to contact officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ATF, and FBI were unsuccessful. Chicago residents, particularly those within immigrant communities, have been experiencing heightened anxiety for months, anticipating large-scale immigration arrests that the Trump administration has repeatedly promised. Immigrant rights groups have been actively preparing by disseminating campaigns to inform immigrants of their rights in the event of an arrest. City officials have also taken steps to educate the public, publishing similar information at hundreds of public transit stations. On Friday, a concerning incident occurred when Chicago Public Schools officials mistakenly believed ICE agents had arrived at a city elementary school. They issued statements to that effect before learning that the agents actually belonged to the Secret Service. The erroneous report of immigration agents at a school, which had long been off-limits to them until Trump reversed the policy last week, swiftly drew criticism from community groups and Governor JB Pritzker. The Democratic governor, known for his frequent critiques of Trump, questioned the operations and the targeting of immigrants. 'We need to get rid of the violent criminals. But we also need to protect people, at least the residents of Illinois and all across the nation, who are just doing what we hope that immigrants will do,' Pritzker stated on CNN's 'State of the Union' on Sunday.Chicago has consistently been a target for Trump's policies. The city boasts some of the strongest sanctuary protections, which prohibit cooperation between city police and immigration agents. On Saturday, multiple immigrant rights groups filed a lawsuit against ICE, seeking an injunction to prevent certain types of immigration raids in Chicago. 'Immigrant communities who have called Chicago their home for decades are scared,' said Antonio Gutierrez from Organized Communities Against Deportation, one of the plaintiffs. 'We refuse to live in fear and will fight any attempts to roll back the work we’ve done to keep families together.'
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