Chicago is a notoriously segregated city, which means that some neighborhoods have been completely transformed by ICE’s presence, while in non-Latino neighborhoods, it’s mostly been business as usual. But the response to the federal incursion knows no boundaries.
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Posted inHousing
The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago
Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.
Posted inPolitics
Scenes From No Kings
The No Kings II rallies on Saturday drew as many as eight million people to express opposition to the Trump administration. Their size and breadth make it hard to summarize—but Prospect reporters fanned out to bring you a taste of what was happening.
Posted inPolitics
Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money
We’ve written before about how Trump is spending money without congressional authorization, with the open support of the corrupt Republican hacks on the Supreme Court. Now, with the government formally shut down, Trump has ramped up this practice.
Posted inPolitics
Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump on Saturday
Millions of people will take to the streets again this Saturday to protest the autocratic regime of President Donald Trump, his government shutdown, and his demolition of Medicare, Medicaid, and other public programs in service of tax cuts for billionaires.
Posted inPolitics
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
Immigration enforcement is working hand in hand with the H-2A program.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
CHICAGO – On September 12, attorney Kevin Herrera walked up to Chicagoland’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, passed a crowd of protesters who didn’t know what to make of him, and knocked on the building’s boarded-up front door. No reply. Another knock; nothing. Then Herrera walked to the side […]
Posted inTAP
Who Picked the Crops?
Today on TAP: How ICE favored growers at the expense of farmworkers
Posted inWorking in America
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Workers Demand Justice for Immigrants as More Die in ICE Custody
Elected officials learned two more people died in federal immigration detention this week, bringing the total number of deaths to at least 16.
