With Trump deportation raids reported to start in Chicago, advocates say they will safeguard immigrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "The state is very clear that the Trust Act doesn't allow for local elected officials to work with ICE," Fuentes told the Sun-Times.
54% : Speaking on Fox News, Homan said "ICE is finally going to go out and do their job.
51% : "The city has been working for months to work on various scenarios for what would happen when Trump took office, including running "tabletop exercises" dealing with the city's response, city officials told the Sun-Times.
49% : "Officials with the McHenry County Sheriff's office have pushed for state officials to rewrite state laws that bar them from working with federal immigration officials.
44% : CPD does not document immigration status, and in accordance with the ordinance, does not share information with federal immigration authorities.
39% : "Citing sources, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday the incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago starting Tuesday, a day after Trump is inaugurated, and will last all week.
39% : "Chicago has been a sanctuary city for nearly 40 years since Mayor Harold Washington issued an executive order, allowing undocumented people to access city services and live without fear of police harassment or city cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
38% : "Individuals can go to work and that they can dial 911 and not be afraid because the Chicago Police Department will not be working with ICE. ...
35% : We're going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them go arrest criminal aliens, that's what's going to happen.
31% : In an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker on Saturday, Trump didn't give specifics on when and where mass deportation raids would start, only that it will happen soon.
28% : "The City Council on Wednesday voted 39-11 to table an attempt by two Hispanic alderpersons to restore the exceptions to the city's Welcoming City ordinance, which means Trump will have no help from Chicago police officers when and if he follows through on his threat of mass deportations of illegal immigrants, starting with those with records.
6% : "At the news conference, Garcia pushed back on that claim, saying, "We continue to reject the assertion by Donald Trump and other enablers that somehow we are more prone to criminality.

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