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On Sunday, the US immigration authorities began arrests in Chicago, targeting unregistered residents living in the “safe haven city”.
The Immigration and Customs Department confirmed on the social networking site X that its customers, along with many federal agencies, including the FBI, have started their operations in the city in the Middle West. Caesar border Tom Human He was in Chicago for raid, as was the acting Deputy Prosecutor Emile Bouv.
The operation targeted about 270 “well -known criminals”, according to the TV personality, Phil McGaru, who was accompanying the immigration and customs administration officials and customs at the center of their leadership in Chicago and broadcasts direct events to his MERIT TV channel.
Donald Trump rose Migration The central issue in his campaign and promised to “collect collective deportation”. The city of Chicago has been in a state of tension for more than a week after the media informed the administration's plans for raids, as the number of people who ventured out in the neighborhoods with high population density decline.
At least five residents of the city of Chicago outside the United States, according to the American population, a gathering that includes people whose conditions ranged as migrants among naturalized and unregistered citizens. Mexicans are the largest group of born outside the United States, followed by people from India and Poland.
About 52,000 migrants arrived in the city since August 2022, when the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, began Transfer of people by bus from the border To Chicago, among the other Democratic -controlled cities.
As the city of Malaz since the eighties, Chicago Policies have adopted cooperation with the federal authorities to implement the Immigration Law.
This month, the city council voted to reject the proposal that would weaken these protection measures, and the Chicago Transport Authority offered ads at train and bus stations to direct passengers to the city's “Know your Rights” site, which determines how to interact with immigration authorities.
Human has spoken in recent months about the “side” arrests, the detention of unregistered persons if they were attending a person with an arrest warrant by the Immigration and Customs Department. This would violate the court's settlement for 2022 and can make the residents of some states detained in such arrests without a judicial permission qualified to immediately release the reservation.
Homan agreed on Sunday when McGu, also known as “Dr. Phil,”, indicated that side arrests were the result of local authorities' refusal to cooperate with the Immigration and Customs Department, prompting federal agents to conduct arrests in the city's neighborhoods.
“This is the game they want to play, the game will continue, and we will do it,” Human said.
Immigration defenders feared that the executive orders issued by Trump last week will constitute a widespread attempt to dismantle due legal protection procedures.
Hurry up, which is the deportation of persons without a judicial hearing or a legal advisor, usually applies to people detained 100 miles from the borders of the United States.
Trump is trying to extend it throughout the country to anyone who cannot prove in a manner that satisfies the Undersecretary of Immigration and Customs, that he has stayed in the United States for at least two years.
Mary MiG McCarthy, Executive Director of the National Center for Immigrant Justice, said that many orders violate the American law and constitution.
Trump's speech on “the familiar cruelty and abstraction of humanity … She added:” By now associating with the full power of the executive and Congress, he will unleash a deep suffering for our long -time migrant neighbors and the people who have recently arrived to seek asylum. “
