Chicago, Protests and ICE raids
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Chicago is responding to President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration raids with protests. Here’s what we know with two more planned.
Protesters against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fanned across downtown Chicago Tuesday evening, and some police vehicles were vandalized as the marchers passed. Sabrina Franza and Jermont Terry are on the ground.
Anti-ICE protests that erupted in Los Angeles over the weekend have now spread to at least 12 states in cities from New York to Chicago, Portland and Dallas.
The effect of the ban was not apparent Monday at O'Hare International Airport where, eight years ago during Trump's first attempt at a travel ban, hundreds protested and over a dozen people were arrested.
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HOW WE GOT HERE: The protests erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Friday carried out raids in three locations across L.A., where dozens of people were taken into custody. Newsom called the raids “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”
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CNN’s Rosemary Church asks Pablo Alvarado, the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network who called for peaceful protests to protect vulnerable immigrant communities, what he thinks about the violent protests in Los Angeles.
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