Migrants in Chicago brace for potential ICE raids after Trump's inaugurationCHICAGO (CBS) --With President-elect Donald Trump having pledged to stage a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration immediately after he takes the oath of office on Monday, local leaders and immigrant rights groups in ...
"This is a test for all of us for as Americans, our land of immigrants and opportunity, to prove that this generation is willing to help," U.S. Sen Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) said in November. "There's more to do. We didn't choose this challenge; it came our way by someone else...
More than 26,000 people are now in Chicago seeking asylum. They're in the center of a humanitarian crisis and political tit-for-tat; a federal problem that will continue to volley between the city and Texas in 2024, costing Chicago and Illinois millions of dollars with human welfare at sta...
Chicago and Illinois have spent more than $250 million to support asylum seekers, Johnson and Pritzker said in an Aug. 28 letter to Mayorkas. Washington D.C., which has received the largest number of migrants from the Texas buses, has given temporary shelter to at least 2,000 migrants an...
This paper uses data abstracted from 465 client records randomly selected from the current files of a downtown medical clinic in Chicago, Illinois to examine substance use among 85 immigrant and 380 nonimmigrant homeless and at-risk homeless adults. Immigrants to the United States reported lower ...
CHICAGO — TheOlive Branch Missionis among the groups providing assistance to the migrants who arrived in Chicago from South and Central America. Currently, they’re housing about a dozen mothers and children. The shelter started welcoming migrants since November and has seen more than a 100 of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The TV host known as "Dr. Phil" embedded with U.S. immigration enforcement officers during an operation in Chicago on Sunday, defending President Donald Trump's deportation effort as the crackdown neared the end of its first week. ...
“SNAP/EBT Food Stamp Benefits Accepted” is displayed on a screen inside a Family Dollar Stores Inc. store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Dollar Tree Inc. released earnings figures on March 4. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images ...
Meanwhile, the mayor said the failure of federal policies is what is impacting Chicago in a dramatic way. Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth shared a statement about Chicago's migrant crisis and the mayor's plans to visit the southern border: Senator Durbin and I had a productive conversat...
Denver, to “provide support to our overrun and overwhelmed border communities,” his spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris told CNN Friday, noting, “Governor Pritzker was all too proud to call Illinois ’the most welcoming state in the nation’ until Governor Abbott began transporting migrants to Chicago...