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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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that there are currently 4 bills on Governor Pritzker’s desk that he could sign immediately to protect the rights of immigrants in Illinois, and that some of the bills have been being legislated “for years.” Ban...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is reviewing a proposal to ban private detention centers to house ICE detainees, reports the Chicago Tribune. The Illinois Senate approved House Bill 2040.  A private company in Virginia, Immigration Centers of America, wants to construct...

The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on April 19, 2019, about adding census citizenship questions to the upcoming 2020 Census questionnaire. The US Census Bureau is required by law to count the country’s total population every 10 years. The...