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The US immigration authorities began on Sunday in Chicago with arrests that were directed against residents without papers who lived in the “Refuge City”.
The immigration and customs authority confirmed on the social media page X that its agents, together with several federal authorities, including the FBI, had started operations in the city in the middle west. Grenzzar Tom Homan Was the raid in Chicago, as was the acting lawyer Emil Bove.
The operation aimed at about 270 “well-known criminals”, according to the television star Phil McGraw, who accompanied ICE officials and agents in their command center in Chicago and moderated live streaming events for his broadcaster Merit TV.
Donald Trump made immigration On the central theme of his campaign and promised “mass deportation”. Chicago has been in turmoil for more than a week after news agencies reported on the plans of the government for raids, since fewer people venture outside in the neighborhoods characterized by immigrants.
According to the US people’s count, almost a fifth of the population of the Chicago metropolitan region was born outside the USA, a group that includes people with immigration status that ranges from naturalized citizens to humans without papers. Mexicans represent the largest group born outside the USA, followed by people from India and Poland.
Around 52,000 immigrants have been arrived in the city since August 2022, when the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, started Bus travelers from the border to Chicago, among other things in other cities controlled by the Democrats.
As a refuge city since the 1980s Chicago Has adopted guidelines that restrict cooperation with federal authorities to enforce immigration law.
This month, the city council voted to reject a proposal that would have weakened these protective measures, and the Chicago Transit Authority switches on at train stations and bus stops that lead passengers to the “Know your rights” website, on which it is explained how it is explained how You can interact with her immigration authorities.
Homan has spoken of “collateral detention” in the past few months, i.e. the detention of people without papers, if they are in the presence of someone, has an arrest warrant against the ICE. This would violate a court comparison of 2022 and lead to residents of certain states, which are recorded in the context of such arrests without arrest warrant, are entitled to immediate release from custody.
On Sunday, Homan agreed, as McGraw, also known as “Dr. Phil ”, indicated that collateral arrest was the result of the refusal of local authorities to work with ICE, which caused federal agents to make arrests in districts.
“This is the game you want to play, the game goes on, we will do it,” said Homan.
Immigration advocates fear that the implementation regulations issued by Trump last week are a large -scale attempt to remove protection against proper legal proceedings.
The accelerated deportation, i.e. the deportation of people without a judicial hearing or legal assistance, usually applies to people who are held within 100 miles around the US limit.
Trump tries to extend it to the whole country, for everyone who cannot believe that they have been able to live in the USA for at least two years.
Mary Meg McCarthy, Managing Director of the National Immigrant Justice Center based in Chicago, said many of the orders violate US law and the constitution.
Trump’s rhetoric of “familiar cruelty and dehumanization”. . . Now paired with the full power of the executive and the congress, it will be deep suffering about our long -time immigrated neighbors and people who have only recently arrived to look for refuge, ”she said.
