Dozens of pro-migrant activists gathered in Pilsen, a predominantly Mexican neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side, to protest against President-elect Donald Trump's planned deportation policies. The rally specifically targeted incoming border czar Tom Homan, who warned that Chicago would be a priority target for deportation efforts. Activists aimed to reassure migrants against fearing deportation and equip them with strategies to avoid confrontations with ICE.
Several dozen pro-migrant activists held a rally Monday on Chicago’s Southwest Side to protest against President-elect Donald Trump ’s coming deportation plans.
“His border czar Tom Homan came to Chicago and said he’s going to start deporting people on day one,” activist Yesenia Puebla Chicago alderman Nicholas Sposato added that the coming plans are to focus on the criminal element, not DREAMers or law-abiding migrants.an amendment to alter current city rules to allow the Chicago Police Department to cooperate with ICE to deport criminals the CPD has arrested.
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