Amid fears of a 40 percent cut to Chicago-area public transit services, the Illinois chapter of GreenLatinos mobilized this fall to save the elevated train line that serves two of the city’s predominantly Latino neighborhoods.

The Pink Line is critical to Pilsen and Little Village, both for getting around and for reducing traffic exhaust in areas already overburdened by pollution. The environmental group thought an event would help and teamed up with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization and others to plan one.

They received more than 100 RSVPs. Then the Trump administration deployed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agents en masse to Chicago and began snatching people, including some Latino U.S. citizens , off the street, at work, and in other locations acr

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