AS DHS CLAIMS HORDS OF ARRESTS IN CHICAGO, Independent Dashboard is Launched to Track Deportations
While the US Department of Homeland Security Said it has made up the arrests in Illinois, Immigration Advocates in Chicago Announced their database to track immigration arrests and deportations.
The Agency Touted 900 Arrests in A Social Media Post ACCOMPANIED BY A-MINUTE VIDEO SHOWING FEDERAL AGENTS CONDUCTING A Nighttime Raid on a South Shore Residency Building This Week Resulted in 37 Arrests of People Who Are ACCUSED OF BEING “INVOLVED IN DRUG TRAFICKING AND DISTRIBUTION, WEACTRUBTITBINGS, WEAPONS, WEACTOR Crimes and Immigration Violators, “Accity to dhs.
But dhs and US immigration and customs enforcement have shared few details on the arrests, Making it difficult to independently verify some of the allegated Crimes. The Limited Information Has Spurred Immigrant Rights Activists to Create Own Public Dashboard Showing Who is Being Detailed by Federal Authorities.
SINCE SEPT. 8, The Federal Government Rolled Out an Aggresive Deportation CAMAGN CALLED “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago and the Surrounding Suburbs. The National Immigrant Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois Are Challenging the Arrests in Federal Court, arguing that at the least 27 of the arrests were so with the Warrants or Probable Cause and in Violation of an Existing Conssent Decree. At Least Three US Citizens were Among Those arrested in recent Weeks, accorting to the civil Rights Groups.
A Top US Border Patrol Official Who Has Been Leading The Arrests Told Wbez The agents were arresting People based on “How they look.”
In south shore this weeke, federal agents approoched or entered nearly and apartment in a five-story building that was raided, and us Citizens were Among Those detained for Hours, Residents and Witnesses Told the Sun-Times.
SO FAR, FEDERAL OFFICIALS HAVE NAMED ABOUT 50 POPLE ARRESTED IN RECENT WEEK, TYPICALLY THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AND PRESS RELEASES HIGHLIGHTING THEIR CRIMINAL BACKGROUNDS. The list includes a man convicted of the murder and a least three others convicted of the sexual assault or domestic battery charges.
But several others arrested have Only been accused of entering the country illegally.
About Half of the Names and Allegated Charges relayed by dhs couludn’t be definitively matched to court records.
At Least Two of the Men, and Apparently a Third, Were detail outside of illinois.
In respects to the Requests for Comment and a More detailed Breakdown of the Arrests Showing How Many were targeted and how Many have crimitable records, a dhs spokesperson provides only the News Release from wednesday announcing the most than 800 arrests.
Immigration Arrests Dashboard Unveiled Thicksday
The Public Dashboard of Immigration Arrests, Announched Thursday by the Resurrection Project, Will Be Updated Weekly on the Organization’s Website. It aims to catalog immigrant arrests and deportations that the federal government is no longer sharing.
The Dashboard Shows that calls to immigrant legal assistance hotlines more than doubles in september, ben and increted immigrant enforcement in the chicago area.
The Federal Government Used to Share Data About Who Was Arrested by Ice, Says Erandira Ordin, Vice President of Immigrant Justice for the Resurrection Project. But those public dashboards were scrubbed from the Internet when President Donald Trump Took Office This Year, Sandón Said.
“We’re Trying to KEEP RECORD OF WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITIES,” Ranks Told Reporters Thursday. “These dashboards make it Clear: Immigrants, Particularly Latinos, Are Under Attack.”
Of the 121 hotline calls taken in the last week of september, the vast majority of calls were for families from mexico, followed by those from Venezuela. Most Reference Came From People Living in Chicago, with Others Coming from Cicero, Aurora, Calumet City and Elgin. The date also shows that immigration offices are arresting more People who have been in the US for 2 to 5 years.
Contribing: Sophie Sherry