Chicago – Reverend Marshall Hatch urged retired black church on the western side of Chicago to bear the identity, and to stay in contact with the family and protest with the city’s willingness to Federal intervention expected.
“You have to start telling people about your place, so don’t disappear,” Hatch said during Sunday services in the New Bill Criminisan Church. “We will not feel despair. We will not be threatened. We will not surrender and surrender to fascism and authoritarianism.”
As Chicago prepare For a campaign to enforce immigration and the deployment of a potential National Guard, churches appeared throughout the city from the pulpit. Some worked to suppress concerns about detention and deportation, while others tackled the possibility on the horizon to further apply the law in the third largest city in the country.
President Donald Trump threatened federal intervention in democratic strongholds, the last of which is a warning The power of the end of the world It can be used in Chicago to combat crime and intensify deportation. He has repeatedly cited the expected plans for fierce objections from Local leaders and Many population Those who call it unnecessary and unwanted.
while The concerns were high In the migrant circles since Trump took office the second time, the threat of more agencies and federal forces has ended in tensions, especially in black and Latin societies where Police confidence crisp.
Among those present at the church, Leicester Peres, a 74 -year -old warrior in the US military, said that a military presence in Chicago would threaten.
He said: “I don’t want the soldiers here.” “They are trained to fight.”
The details about the expected intervention were sporadic, including its focus and when it is expected to start. Caesar Trump Tom Human said on Sunday about the “Union’s case” in CNN that federal law enforcement will come to Chicago this week. He also promised more work enforcement operations such as the huge in a Hyundai Factory In Georgia.
“You can expect a procedure in most of the campus cities throughout the country,” he said.
The Trump administration has repeatedly targeted, and Establishing in vain, On the laws of Chicago, which is among the strongest in the country. His administration launched a The enforcement of immigration at the country level In the city in January.
There is no official definition for Sanctuary Policies or the cities of the Haram. Terminology generally describes the limits of local cooperation with the enforcement of migration and customs. ICE imposes US immigration laws worldwide, but sometimes seeks governmental and local assistance.
This time, the Ministry of Internal Security plans to use a Military base north of the city Other suburb leaders have warned that they would use the Federal Immigration Treatment Center there for the operation This will last 45 days. At the same time, Trump said he might send the National Guard forces to New Orleans Before Chicago.
Trump has already published the National Guard Los Angeles and Washington, DC. , Where he also wrote Police Force. A federal judge spent the publication of Los Angeles illegal.
“We do not need another level of the application of the law and their presence to pretend that they will solve the problems related to violence.” American MP Danny Davis, Democrat said, at a press conference on Sunday with other black leaders elected on the western side of the city.
Most of approximately 3 million people in the Chicago black or Latin. The New Mount Pilgrim is located in the city’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, which is a large black neighborhood that faced a continuous crime and years of investment, including five schools near the church that was closed in 2013 as part of the largest of it Close the collective audience In our history.
The Church often called for action against violence in the streets even with violent Chicago crime rates in Chicago Decline BA in recent years as part of National direction. His great glass art facilities depict the life of slaves and the commemoration of blacks who were killed by violence. On Sunday, the Church celebrated the pioneer of the center of arts and near activity, which he said was part of the solution.
“We are not calling for the army, we are calling the resources,” he said. “We know that there is a relationship between resources and violence.”
Elsewhere in the city, other churches worked to remind people of their rights when it comes to interactions with immigration agents, and urged them to carry the necessary documents.
The feeling that you were familiar to many in Chicago, and the expected process Place the inhibitory Usually at the celebration of the celebration of Mexican Independence Day in the city. The church leaders said that the immigration process in January in Chicago had a chilling effect on the presence of the migratory and Latin churches where people remained at home.
The clergy said that they were preparing for himself in the coming weeks.
“It seems that anything can happen at any moment,” said Reverend Baku Amador of the Church of the New Society of Life in the Mexican Small Village neighborhood. “It will be irresponsible not to talk about this.”
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The Associated Press Calvin Woodwards writer contributed to this report from Washington.