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Cinco de Mayo in Chicago will be canceled this year for fear of strictly conducting immigration, said the local event organizer.
The Cermak Chamber of Commerce, which announced on Thursday that they were canceling the event, reportedly said that the Mexican community in Chicago was concerned about American immigration and customs execution (ICE).
“Our people are afraid,” Hector Escobar, President of Casa Puebla and Cermak Cespe Comese, told the ABC local branch.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and other mayors supporting the city mayors have pressed federal legislators to explain their policies last month. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Escobar said, “You see, some of them, even don’t want to go to work, and some of them risk high risk. And definitely, it’s not much to celebrate.”
Cinco de Mayo is held annually on the southwestern side of Chicago, which includes a parade with musical performances and activities that celebrate Mexican culture.
Ice spent raids around a windy city, aiming for the records of suspicious criminal migrants, as well as the arrest of unfathomable immigrants if they were caught in Raid places.
US IMIGRATION AND CARINICAL COMMISSION Agents (ICE) conduct an arrest as part of the broad immigration of US President Trump in Chicago, Illinois, USA, January 26, 2025, in a quiet image from the video. (Immigration and customs implementation/brochure via Reuters)
Shortly after the president Donald Trump He was elected duty, LED committed hundreds of arrests of illegal immigrants, including those with criminal histories involving sexual abuse, domestic violence and drug crimes and weapons.
Trump’s border emperor, Tom Homan, promised to go after Chicago with a strict conduct, promising to check the status of asylum seekers and arrest everyone who provided the shrine with illegal immigrants.
The arrival border emperor also warned that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson would be prosecuted if he interfered with Ice -s efforts for mass deportation.
“Our community is very scared because of the raids and threats that Ice imposed on the families who tirelessly work to provide a better future for their children,” Escobar said in a statement Obtained by CBS. “Our community has faced mistreatment and prosecution and does not indulge in community activities, so we think there is nothing to celebrate.”
Escobar did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
Trump’s border emperor, Tom Homan, promised to go after Chicago with a strict conduct, promising to check the status of asylum seekers and arrest everyone who provided the shrine with illegal immigrants. (Photo John Lampar/Getty Images)
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Furthermore, Johnson and other mayors supporting the city The federal legislators pressed explain your policies last month.
Immigration was a hot topic in the city after Several residents have been developed by mayor To handle a large inflow of migrants who have come to the city in the last two years.
