Following a protest outside Aurora City Hall on Thursday, Mayor John Laesch is condemning federal immigration enforcement activity in the area.

Federal agents have been in the Aurora area in recent days, state Rep. Barbara Hernandez , D-Aurora, and state Sen. Karina Villa, D-West Chicago, said in Facebook posts recently. According to a statement by Laesch on Friday, the city was also notified of federal agent sightings, which incited “panic and fear among residents.”

“This unconstitutional deployment of federal officers resulted in multiple snatchings of community members, targeting, specifically, our city’s strong and diverse Hispanic population,” Laesch said in the statement. “I utterly condemn the wrongful use of federal funds to violate the civil rights of our residents.”

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