Donald Trump's mass deportation pledge could test Chicago's immigrant protections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : ICE can fully operate ...
59% : "You come for my people, you come through me," he declared to Trump after the November election.
54% : On Friday, President Joe Biden extended Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Venezuela and other countries as a bid to preempt Trump from jeopardizing the benefit.
53% : "Johnson's deputy mayor of community safety, Garien Gatewood, stressed the city's goal was to prep shelter operators with legal guidance and resources should a shelter raid scenario arise.
53% : The main thing for folks to be able to protect themselves in case of ICE raids, or in case they have an encounter with ICE, is that they know what their rights are."
50% : "Public records requests show the Johnson and Pritzker teams met last month to talk about "Shelter Raids," indicating they think the city-state's new single shelter system for migrants could be one of the target areas for ICE activity.Daisy Contreras, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Human Services, said the discussion "to protect vulnerable populations in Illinois in shelter settings" included brainstorming "potential trainings that shelter staff may need if engaging with federal immigration enforcement officials and/or handling and responding to immigration-related documentation.
49% : Homan has lately offered sanctuary cities such as Chicago a choice: Cooperate with rounding up criminals in the U.S. without legal permission, or see Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies on the streets.
46% : "Chicago's sanctuary city ordinance -- or Illinois' statewide version, the Way Forward Act -- bans official cooperation between local law enforcement and federal deportation authorities, while ensuring immigrants living without legal permission can use city services.
44% : More unusually, Trump and his administration have talked about going after birthright citizenship, a right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment for children who were born in the country.
41% : Chicago officials are mobilizing a legal and resource playbook to stop federal immigration agents from carrying out raids at businesses, shelters, police lock-ups and beyond.
41% : Under the actual policies that Trump had, anybody who is undocumented was the priority for deportation.
38% : But unlike New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was spared Homan's ire after backing a plan to focus on deporting violent immigrants in the country without legal status, Johnson's political brand hinges on leftist bona fides that position him as a progressive foil to Trump.
33% : This will surely draw legal challenges -- but Trump could be counting on the 6-3 conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court to undo that protection.
31% : "I think we need to take every threat that Trump makes seriously and be ready to be able to fight it," said Eréndira Rendón, vice president of immigrant justice at The Resurrection Project.
27% : What Trump can do to target them is change the law to make asylum status easier to deny, so that after their cases are adjudicated, they become immigrants subject to deportation.
18% : Rendon, with The Resurrection Project, said Homan and Trump should not be trusted at their word to only deport criminals.

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