Chicago collects $440K from "rogue" bus companies that brought migrants
The Chicago Law Department said it has collected $440,000 from bus companies that brought thousands of migrants from the southern border to Chicago.
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The Chicago Law Department said it has collected $440,000 from bus companies that brought thousands of migrants from the southern border to Chicago.
This year, the immigrant rights group said its priority is to provide legislators with steps they can take to protect all Illinoisans.
Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker met with the pontiff Tuesday morning.
The migrants were held at a military base in Djibouti for weeks.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling means hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants are about to lose their Temporary Protected Status and will no longer be able to work legally in the U.S. Sabrina Franza reports.
The State of Illinois opened the shelter and was paying for it, with plans to close the shelter on June 1. But now, those plans have apparently changed.
During the address, Pope Leo recalled the story of his own family that included immigrants coming to America. His comments, however, could set him up for confrontation with the Trump administration, who has vowed to deport immigrants who are in the u-s illegally.
Dugan, a Milwaukee county circuit court judge, was arrested by the FBI after director Kash Patel said she "intentionally misdirected federal agents away" from an illegal immigrant who had a criminal court hearing.
The new ads warn migrants they will be fined nearly $1,000 per day and are being told to self-deport before they are caught.
In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in Texas' Bluebonnet Detention Center "until further order from this court."
As Cristian Benavides reports, the trump administration has also announced plans to revoke the status of some immigrants, who arrived to the U.S. legally.
President Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as Friday to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants.
Affected organizations said the move would prevent them from offering critical legal services to migrant children who crossed the U.S. southern border without their parents or legal guardians.
The Trump administration cut all federal dollars that provided migrants any legal help.
A new round of federal cuts are hitting legal aid workers for undocumented children of migrants — including hundreds of kids in the Chicago area. Jermont Terry reports.
President Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan says Pope Francis should "stick to the Catholic Church," as the pontiff criticizes U.S. plans for mass deportations.
Trump says he's directed his staff to prepare an enormous facility for migrants at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It would house undocumented migrants after being expelled from the U.S., a place to send deportees whose own countries won't accept.
Despite knowing that ICE operations were inevitable, word that they actually took place early Sunday morning sent shockwaves across several immigrant communities. Andrew Ramos spoke with Ald. Michael Rodriguez (22nd) of Little Village.
Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" in the U.S. were arrested and hundreds more flown out of the country on military aircraft, the White House said.
Panama's government says 41% fewer people crossed the treacherous stretch of jungle connecting the Americas in 2024 than in 2023.
The shelter at the former motel, at 7300 N. Sheridan Rd. at Chase Avenue, had been in operation since July 2023.
The shelter at the former motel, at 7300 N. Sheridan Rd. at Chase Avenue, had been in operation since July 2023.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police worry if Trump begins mass deportations, people will try to go to Canada instead. If that happens, they'll be arrested and then transferred to border services to see if they're eligible for asylum.
In his first term, Trump’s policies left hundreds of thousands of migrants stranded in camps along the Mexican border.
Officials will be launching a new single unified system to provide shelter and other assistance to both migrants and longtime Chicagoans who are unhoused in 2025.
