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NPR is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is fining individuals who failed to depart the United States as ordered. According to NPR, during the last week of June letters with ICE fines up to $500,000 were sent across...

Ahead of ICE raids expected to begin on July 14, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that the city will not cooperate with any ICE raids and Governor JB Pritzker said the state won't coordinate in any way with federal immigration...

152 people were picked up by ICE during raids in Chicago in June 2019. By the time you get to an ICE detention center, it may be too late. Statistically speaking, only 15-20% will ever speak to an attorney.  A...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law 2 bills on June 28 that will protect Illinois immigrant rights against ICE and Trump attacks on immigrant communities: “Let the word go out from today that the state of Illinois stands as a...

Illinois immigration rights advocates are calling for the passage of a bill that would make Illinois a "sanctuary state." Democratic state senators Rep. Celina Villanueva, of Chicago, and Sen. Don Harmon, of Oak Park, joined immigration rights advocates who want...

President Trump announced on June 17, 2019, that starting next week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will begin conducting mass ICE raids targeting families of undocumented immigrants. "Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday announced a new program that would allow local law enforcement officers to start arresting and temporarily detaining immigrants on behalf of the agency, even if established local policies prevent them from doing so....

The Trump administration has increased its efforts to incarcerate immigrants that he plans to deport. The numbers are so overwhelming that some of the detention facilities are unable to provide basic care for its detainees. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

The first 100 days of the new administration have shown us that the POTUS will be fighting an uphill battle in Washington to get his way on the key issues his campaign platform was based: repealing Obamacare, fighting terrorism, and...