Through the same downtown streets federal immigration agents patrolled over the weekend , chants of “No ICE, no troops!” rang out Tuesday evening as hundreds marched against President Donald Trump’s recent surge in immigration enforcement locally.

A day after Gov. JB Pritzker announced that federal officials are seeking to deploy troops to Illinois in support of President Donald Trump’s surge in immigration enforcement, about 300 demonstrators gathered downtown to protest against the heightened U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity and troops coming to the city.

For about an hour, demonstrators spoke and chanted along Wacker Drive near Michigan Avenue before marching down Michigan toward Water Tower.

Brenda Ascencio, an immigration attorney who lives near the Loop, went

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