As the Trump administration’s mass deportation raids begin their second month, their impact has stretched across the Chicago region and the nation.
Political tensions have deepened, hundreds have been detained or arrested, and thousands have protested from a two-story brick U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Broadview to city street corners and suburban downtowns. Throughout it all , activists, protesters and journalists have been tear gassed or hit with pepper balls and President Donald Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard — first to quell crime in Chicago, then to assist ICE and Border Patrol agents — have, for the moment, not come to fruition.
Here’s what we know about federal immigration enforcement in and around the city, as well as other im

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