Immigration
Several FIFA World Cup officials have been denied U.S. entry, while others have been subjected to heavy security screening and visa denials. An Iraqi team photographer was denied entry last week at O’Hare International Airport.
A police spokesperson said the case was suspended after investigators exhausted all “investigative leads,” despite video that appears to show a federal immigration agent causing the crash Tuesday morning.
A chorus of local Democrats has called on Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros to resign, including U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, and former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
The man was detained during a chase Tuesday morning near Lawrence and Kedzie avenues. The local alderperson told residents to “take care of yourself if you’re vulnerable,” warning that agents were “in the community.”
Debbie Brockman, a U.S. citizen who formerly worked for WGN, submitted administrative complaints against U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a necessary legal step on the way to a possible lawsuit against the federal government.
A bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature would bar new immigration detention centers from being built within 1,500 feet of certain community buildings.
The Mexican Independence Day celebration will take place in Grant Park in September after last year’s festival was canceled amid immigration enforcement concerns, organizers announced.
Sheridan Gorman’s father referenced earlier claims that defendant Jose Medina has a developmental disability from a gunshot wound, saying Monday that it’s time to “stop pretending this man is harmless and has the mentality of a child.”
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The Cook County sheriff’s office said jail staff found Jose Medina with a sharpened piece of metal with a handle fashioned out of medical tape in his pants pocket Thursday morning.
Ricardo Navarrete took part in his high school’s intramural soccer tournament a day after being released from immigration detention. It was his first game since federal immigration authorities took him and his mother into custody earlier this year.
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Defense attorneys for Lemon, charged with a conspiracy against the right to worship, told a judge “the alarming pace” of federal prosecutors’ loss of trust “has reached a tipping point.” The Southern Poverty Law Center, facing a fraud prosecution, referenced the Broadview case in its own effort to obtain grand jury records.
A defense attorney in the case tied to Loretto Hospital filed a motion Tuesday saying the misconduct allegations against Broadview prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg were known for months, calling for the dismissal of charges tied to the $800 million hospital-related fraud prosecution that Mecklenburg also led.
After 18-year-old Ricardo Navarrete and his mother, Liliana, were detained by immigration officials in March, the teen’s school and soccer community rallied to call attention to their case.
Adam Saracco was charged with misdemeanor battery in the late December attack at a gas station in suburban Brookfield. Robert Held, the attorney and activist who says he was attacked, told reporters Tuesday that he expects prosecutors “will do the right thing” by upgrading the case to a felony.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros responded by saying he has only attended grand jury proceedings “as the Chief Legal Advisor to the federal grand juries of this district, including to welcome them when they were impaneled or to advise generally on the role, function, and importance of the grand jury in our constitutional system of laws.”
Los Tucanes de Tijuana draws a multigenerational crowd while Fuerza Regida attracts the 35-and-younger set. A great majority of Sunday’s artists identify as Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants.