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One in eight U.S. residents is an immigrant, while one in nine residents is a native-born U.S. citizen with at least one immigrant parent. The American Immigration Council has compiled state by state immigration data and states. Following is an...

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Illinois Attorney General Wants Answers on Immigrant Medical Care

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 19 other state attorneys general sent a formal inquiry to the federal government about immigrant medical care. The letter to the departments U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

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New Illinois Law Protects Immigrant Renters

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a new law on August 21, 2019, to protect immigrant renters in Illinois, effective immediately. The Immigrant Tenant Protection Act prohibits landlords from evicting or striking back against a tenant based on their citizenship or...

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Fake ICE Agent Scam in the Chicago Suburbs

Phone scammers have been calling U.S. citizens in Palos Park, a suburb southwest of Chicago. Palos Park police said in early August, 2 people received fraudulent calls from someone pretending to be an ICE agent with the threat of deportation....

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Illinois Has 2 New Bills to Protect Immigrant Youth

On July 23, 2019, Illinois passed two new laws to protect immigrant youth “in the wake of attacks on immigrant families by the Trump administration.” Extend Short-Term Guardianship House Bill 836 ensures that children are able to have short-term guardians...

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Chicago Permanently Bans ICE Access to Police Databases

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has permanently banned ICE officials from accessing the city’s police databases. Ahead of the July ICE raids, Lightfoot committed that the city would not coordinate with ICE and would be met with “fierce resistance from Chicagoans...

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ICE Uses Drivers Licenses for Facial Recognition

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been using facial recognition to scan driver’s license photos in some states. Illinois has turned down ICE requests to review driver's licenses. Facial recognition software use by law enforcement including ICE, the FBI...

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Durbin: Trump Wants to Discourage Hispanic American Voters

U.S. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says the Trump administration wants to put the citizenship question on the 2020 census to discourage Hispanic American voters from being counted for fear information could be used to possibly deport one of their relatives....

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Pritzer and Lightfoot Will Not Aid ICE Raids

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...

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2 New Laws Protect Illinois Immigrant Rights

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...

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