Chicago Restaurants Brace For Trump Immigration Raids

Threat of Immigration Raid Turns Chicago Hub Into Ghost Town
The second busiest retail corridor in Chicago is typically a bustling area dotted with taquerias and Mexican grocery stores in the southwestern part of the city. By Monday afternoon it had turned into a ghost town.
Chicago spared immigration raids Tuesday, but Pritzker warns feds may target '2,000 people'
After weeks of preparation by Chicago's immigrant communities, and a weekend full of fear amid multiple reports that the city would serve as the first major raid, there were no reports of immigration enforcement on Tuesday.
Chicago Restaurants Brace For Trump Immigration Raids as Misinformation Flourishes
I’m in Chicago where immigration raids are rumored. A restaurant owner just broke down crying, she lost 30% of her clientele, they’re staying indoors. “Esto se va a poner feo.” whether there are raids here or not the $ blow, fear is already here. And people say that’s the point.
Have your I-9s ready: Chicago restaurants prep for Trump immigration sweeps
Since Trump’s victory in November, the American Business Immigration Coalition has held several dozen in-person and virtual training sessions with more than a thousand employers to prep for the sweeps.
Threat of immigration raids turns Chicago hub into ghost town
Restaurants and other businesses in Little Village, the city's second-busiest retail corridor, are seeing heavy worker absenteeism.
Chicago braces for immigration crackdown and deportations under Trump
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar vows that the biggest city in the Midwest will be “ground zero” for mass deportations, and officials across the political spectrum in Chicago are bracing for a showdown.
Chicago Businesses Sound Alarm Over Trump's Immigration Raids
Business leaders and employers across the United States, including in Chicago, are raising alarms over immigration raids as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to implement his mass deportation policy.
Chicago leaders ready to stand up against immigration raids
Leaders across Chicago are denouncing threats of immigration raids by the new Trump administration as the immigrant community anxiously watches and waits. Cardinal Blase Cupich calls the reports “profoundly disturbing.
Chicago's immigrant communities fearful of Trump's mass deportation plan
President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation is stoking fear across Chicago. From Chinatown to Little Village, individuals and many families are fearing the prospect of separation as numerous published reports said federal agents may be planning an immigration raid in the near future.
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Church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on alert amid immigration crackdown fears
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Chicago schools, churches and hospitals vow to protect migrants in US illegally after Trump lifts ban that limited immigration arrests in safe spaces
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DOJ vows to push immigration enforcement in Chicago, sanctuary cities
President Donald Trump's administration is ramping up its efforts to find and deport undocumented immigrants in Chicago. A ...
City of Chicago launches 'Know Your Rights' campaign with CTA amid fears of immigration raids
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker are once again pushing back on the Trump administration's promise of mass deportations ...
‘People are hiding.’ Chicago immigrants stay home from work to avoid potential ICE arrests.
Amid President Donald Trump’s threats of sweeping arrests and mass deportations, undocumented workers in Chicago skipped work ...
Busy Chicago district known as ‘Mexico of the Midwest’ turns into ghost town as fears of ICE raids loom
Fears over possible ICE raids have heightened across the U.S., causing Chicago’s Mexican-American community Little Village to ...