U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE
The Downers Grove Village Council has rejected two proposed resolutions that would prevent ICE and U.S. Border Patrol from staging on village property and require police to monitor reports on the agencies' activities.
From Capitol News Illinois: The Illinois Accountability Commission is continuing to ramp up even as the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in the Chicago region winds down, at least for now
Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent last month during the federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area
From Capitol News Illinois: Wednesday’s decision also warned not to “overread today’s order” and said that evidence brought to Ellis about federal agents’ use of force in the Chicago area over the last two months “may support entry of a more tailored and appropriate” injunction
A Department of Defense official confirmed to Shaw Local on Monday the 200 Texas guard members are currently being demobilized and the process will continue over the next few days until they are gone.
From Capitol News Illinois: U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has fired a staffer accused of misrepresenting himself as an attorney and falsifying an official form to visit and secure the release of a Staunton restaurant owner detained by immigration agents.
Residents packed a St. Charles City Council meeting to urge a ban on ICE activity in town as some neighboring communities have done, including Batavia.
From Miami to San Diego, schools around the U.S. are seeing big drops in enrollment of students from immigrant families
A group of St. Charles residents said they plan to ask the City Council on Monday to declare city-owned property off limits to federal immigration enforcement agents.
A top Border Patrol commander touted dozens of arrests in North Carolina’s largest city on Sunday as Charlotte residents reported encounters with federal immigration agents near churches, apartment complexes and stores
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government
Authorities arrested 21 protesters Friday outside a Chicago-area federal immigration facility that activists say functions as a de facto detention center and is plagued by inhumane conditions
From Capitol News Illinois: “Expressing your First Amendment rights is not a conspiracy and dissent is not a crime,” Abughazaleh told reporters Wednesday after an arraignment hearing
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings previously determined that ICE had violated the consent decree which, among other things, requires the agency to show documentation for each arrest it makes for people besides those being specifically targeted in an operation
The League of Women Voters of the La Grange Area is sponsoring a program, offered in partnership with the La Grange Public Library, on what it means for to have ICE, border patrol and the National Guard in our communities.
A federal judge said Thursday she will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against peaceful protesters and news media outlets, saying current practices violate their constitutional rights
From Capitol News Illinois: U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman’s ruling follows hours of testimony from former detainees who couldn’t speak to lawyers
A man was taken into custody outside the McHenry County courthouse Wednesday by agents wearing masks and Homeland Security vests who witnesses said smashed the window of his car before detaining him.
From Capitol News Illinois: In concluding Tuesday’s hearing, Judge Gettleman said that due to the increased level of immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, it was clear the Department of Homeland Security is no longer using the facility as it was intended
The Village of Bolingbrook has declined to release body camera video regarding an Oct. 19 incident that involved federal immigration agents who claimed they were battered.
A judge heard testimony Tuesday about overflowing toilets, crowded cells, no beds and water that “tasted like sewer” at a Chicago-area building that serves as a key detention spot for people rounded up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown