Since September, Chicago has been an epicenter of the Trump administration’s nativist anti-immigration push as well as some of the fiercest resistance to it. On a daily basis, we’ve seen reports of ICE snatching people off the streets, as well as locals responding with neighborhood patrols , de-arrests, and communities taking on tear gas in standoffs against the government .

For the last six weeks, Chicago and the surrounding suburbs have seen over 1,000 people taken by ICE in unmarked vans or disappeared in the middle of the night . In defiance, Chicago’s vibrant immigrant community and organizers expanded legal services and training, pushed to cancel harmful surveillance companies like Flock’s license plate reader technology , and formed coalitions to rapidly respond to ICE.

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