The people from the community lined up early Tuesday in the drizzling rain outside a quiet strip mall in Back of the Yards. They weren’t there to shop at the Dollar Tree or work out at the Planet Fitness.

Instead, the activists came with a demand that the management company of the 260,481 square foot plaza at 46th Street and Damen Avenue stop allowing immigration agents to stage their operations on the property.

For the past month, the out-of-state company that runs the plaza has allowed federal immigration agents to use its location while blocking activists from being able to film them, activists said.

Back of the Yards, the Southwest Side neighborhood made famous in Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle” about meatpacking, is a heavy immigrant community alongside a stretch of working-clas

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