Hundreds of Chicagoans gathered in Federal Plaza on Dec. 5 to protest a new policy proposal by the Trump administration, which states immigrants who are receiving public benefits such as Medicaid and housing assistance can be denied green cards.
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In Elkhart, Indiana, an ICE civil detention facility was proposed at the intersection of county roads 7 and 26, a stretch of weeds and snow next to the county’s correctional facility and its huge, methane-leaking landfill. This unremarkable piece of nowhere, Indiana would have held over a thousand immigrants. They would have been held in a private, maximum-security facility with the capability to hold 60 in solitary confinement, encased in a total visual barrier. Would have — because Elkhart, like so many Chicagoland towns before it, said no.
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Chicago’s notorious police gang database has been highly criticized by advocacy groups who claim that the list doesn’t honor Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status and is demographically skewed.
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHvDZ0Jllg&w=560&h=315] Activists gathered to protest a deportation at Gary Airport in Indiana, where undocumented immigrants were brought in on
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