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Neighbors joining together to block Trump deportations

Brown, Mark
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/brown-neighbors-joining-together-to-block-trump-deportations/

Publisher:  Chicago Sun-Times
Date Written:  17/02/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

In neighborhoods across Chicago with large immigrant populations, people are banding together to form rapid response networks to support their neighbors in the event of expected deportation raids by President Donald Trump's administration. In the 35th Ward on the city's Northwest Side, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has started what he calls the Community Defense Committee.

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So far, the 35th Ward Community Defense Committee has concentrated on canvassing door to door to make sure families know their rights if immigration enforcement agents come to their home. Eventually, they hope to be well enough organized to respond immediately to an immigration raid with peaceful, non-violent acts of civil disobedience that could include physically blocking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement truck, Rosa said.

That would be a serious step, and Rosa said it will require specialized training to make sure participants are aware of their rights -- and the potential risks. The hard truth, expressed plainly at the Rogers Park meeting, is that deportation raids are within the law and that some forms of resistance might not be.

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