Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker believes the Trump’s administration is targeting “as many as 2,000 people” in Chicago in its mass deportation plan. It’s unclear whether the number encompasses the people Trump “border czar” Tom Homan is targeting: criminals who lack legal status and immigrants with deportation orders. After weeks of preparation by Chicago’s immigrant communities, and a weekend full of fear amid multiple reports that the city would serve as the first major raid, there were no reports of immigration enforcement on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration’s immigration raids would begin in Chicago Tuesday morning. By Saturday, Homan told the Washington Post that federal authorities were reconsidering whether to launch immigration raids in Chicago after details began to leak. Pritzker said the Trump Administration has not communicated with him about the plan, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
Pritzker said, "If there are violent criminals who have been convicted of violent crimes, who are undocumented, they are supposed to be deported. That is the law of the United States and has been for quite a long time. I don’t want them in my state. I don’t want them in the country.” The governor said Trump’s plan is stoking fear in Chicago’s immigrant neighborhoods. “I was in businesses yesterday that were relatively empty because people are afraid to show up,” Pritzker said. “Because even documented immigrants, even citizens who are from another country but now are citizens of the United States have relatives who are undocumented. They’re afraid. That is what this president is doing, and it’s wrong.” Homan told CNN that he’s targeting people in the country lacking legal status who have a criminal conviction. He said he wants access to criminals in jails in sanctuary cities, to arrest them “in the safety and security of a county jail.” Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers plan to go into communities to find criminals, and others may be arrested along with them. He said, "There’s going to be more collateral arrests in sanctuary cities because they forced us to go in the community and find — and find the guy we’re looking for.”
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