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This year the Illinois Department of Corrections is considering permanently replacing physical mail to residents with digitally scanned mail. Please contact your representatives to oppose this.
This year the Illinois Department of Corrections is considering permanently replacing physical mail to residents with digitally scanned mail. Please contact your representatives to oppose this.
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
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The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors. These are the stories of the people who were inside.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-raid-apartment-building-venezuelans-stories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Chicago #Illinois #ICE #Immigration #Trump #Immigrants #Venezuela
Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at protests there, and religious leaders' obligation to resist tyranny. "It is important for my neighbors who were abducted to know that we will not stop fighting for their release," he writes. "By my estimation, our country is somewhere in 1930s Germany. Fascism is growing in power, but we still have opportunities to resist."
#Religion #Christianity #Immigration #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #ICE #Illinois #Evanston
Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at protests there, and religious leaders' obligation to resist tyranny. "It is important for my neighbors who were abducted to know that we will not stop fighting for their release," he writes. "By my estimation, our country is somewhere in 1930s Germany. Fascism is growing in power, but we still have opportunities to resist."
#Religion #Christianity #Immigration #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #ICE #Illinois #Evanston
#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker says he’s worried how #Trump might respond to the growing controversy over his ties to #Epstein.
“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract. What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to #war with #Venezuela just to get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”
[we’re all worried about that JB]
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-reaction-epstein-files-distraction-280eb69c80aee902b3ed6d712c79f332
#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker says he’s worried how #Trump might respond to the growing controversy over his ties to #Epstein.
“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract. What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to #war with #Venezuela just to get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”
[we’re all worried about that JB]
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-reaction-epstein-files-distraction-280eb69c80aee902b3ed6d712c79f332
The Trump administration bans praying outside or inside the Broadview ICE detention center in the Chicago area.
"Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be 'no more prayer' in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions."
The Trump administration bans praying outside or inside the Broadview ICE detention center in the Chicago area.
"Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be 'no more prayer' in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions."
"Pope Leo's comments strengthen the resolve of those of us in the United States who remain deeply committed to welcoming the stranger," said Kerry Alys Robinson, president & CEO of Catholic Charities USA, a national federation of 168 #Catholic #charity agencies.
#PopeLeo, the first #US pope, has been ramping up his disapproval of the #Trump admin's treatment of #immigrants.
#immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CivilRights #HumanRights #law #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion
"There's a deep reflection that needs to be made in terms of what's happening," the pontiff said on Tuesday, when asked about the condition of #immigrants detained at a federal facility in #Broadview, #Illinois, near #Chicago.
"I know how much it means to detainees & their families that #PopeLeo is paying close attention to the suffering of migrants & their families here," Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told Reuters.
#Trump #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CivilRights #HumanRights #law
…The #daycare raid marked a heightened turn in #Trump's aggressive #immigration crackdown in #Chicago, which began in September with the stated purpose of pursuing dangerous criminals without the legal right to reside in the #US. It has resulted in more than 3,000 arrests, according to the #DHS, including US #citizens & people with no criminal record.
#law #PoliceBrutality #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #CivilRights #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
Last week, federal #immigration agents targeted #Evanston, #Illinois, a northern #Chicago suburb that is home to #Northwestern, in a sweep that included a raid of a #retirement community. On Oct 31, 3 US #citizens who were watching a woman's violent arrest were shoved into an agent's car & driven around for hours before they were released at an FBI field office without charges, acc/to a court filing in a federal case brought by journalists & protesters against agents' #UseOfForce.
Footage obtained by local WGN-TV showed 2 men, one in a balaclava, dragging a woman out of the colorfully decorated front doors of Rayito de Sol #daycare center as she screamed. The men wore vests that said "Police" but no other agency markings were visible.
#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #PoliceBrutality #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
#HumanRights #CivilRights #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
The woman, who was identified in a parents' text group shared with Reuters as Diana Santillana, a #teacher in the #infant classroom from Medellin, Colombia, could be heard saying in Spanish, "I have papers."
The agents grabbed the teacher in front of children, US Rep Mike Quigley, an #Illinois #Democrat, said in a statement. Shocked #parents …said the #school had recently told them that all the teachers were legally authorized to work….
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