Chicago, Halloween and Immigration
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Chicago, Bovino and Border Patrol
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Ruben Torres Maldonado is coming home to his wife, sick daughter and four-year old son. An immigration judge granted the 40-year-old Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents bond on Thursday morning,
A Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer will be released on bond and return home, an immigration judge ruled Thursday.
Noem also announced federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants across the Indiana border with commercial driver’s licenses, including some with Illinois CDLs.
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Immigration enforcement continues to affect life-saving health care in Chicago, officials say
Missed appointments are skyrocketing, and some are afraid to seek care even for deadly health conditions amid immigration enforcement, but health care providers told the ABC7 I-Team they're working to eliminate that climate of fear.
Parents and community leaders across Chicago are organizing safe trick-or-treat spaces this Halloween as concerns grow about the presence of federal immigration agents in the city causing disruptions.
An appeals court has temporarily paused a judge's order requiring U.S. Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino to appear in court daily.
Federal agents have shot pepper balls and deployed tear gas at protesters, leading to a lawsuit by journalists, activists and clergy members. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis earlier this month ordered agents involved in the Chicago crackdown to wear visible identification and limit their use of anti-riot weapons such as pepper balls and tear gas.
Parents and community leaders in the Little Village neighborhood created a safe space for kids to trick-or-treat this Halloween, amid growing concerns about immigration enforcement in the Chicago area.
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained several people in the Chicago Heights and Crete area Monday.
Advocates for immigrants detained there said in legal filings Thursday that the suburban facility, which is designed to be a temporary holding spot en route to a formal detention center, is now holding immigrants for days, or even weeks, in squalid and unsanitary conditions without access to legal counsel.