BELMONT CRAGIN — Northwest Side organizers and elected officials on Thursday urged immigration enforcement agents to leave their neighborhoods, denouncing the arrests of at least 10 people by masked agents in the area this week.

The Palenque LSNA, Northwest Side Rapid Response Team and elected Northwest Side leaders gathered outside the Home Depot in Belmont Cragin, where at least one day worker was arrested by immigration officials this week, according to members of the rapid response team tracking arrests and sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

“To ICE and Border Patrol, you are not welcome in our neighborhoods in Chicago. Leave now,” said Bethzaira Charluisant, Palenque LSNA Immigration Community Navigator, speaking in Spanish at a Thursday press conference hosted

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