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Chicago woman posed as immigration officer, threatened victims with gun

A resident of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood has been accused of posing as an immigration officer and promising to arrange U.S. citizenship for two people for $17,000 each, then threatening at gunpoint to deport them if they didn’t pay up.

ICE calls Cook County's bluff with proposal to cooperate on immigrant detention

Working behind the scenes, the head of the country's immigration enforcement agency has offered to pay the costs of holding suspected illegal immigrants who are arrested for other crimes in Cook County, part of an effort to get county officials to reconsider their refusal to cooperate with federal detention requests.

Stories of immigration told by a group of Albany Park teens

Where politicians seem to have failed to deal in a practical and humane way with the complicated issue of immigration, the Albany Park Theatre Project — a youth theater ensemble rooted in a diverse Chicago neighborhood — has succeeded.

SPECIAL BULLETIN: Immigration Law Associates launches scholarship for college-bound immigrants in IL

To underscore her commitment to immigrant communities in and around Chicago, Elizabeth Walder, with her attorneys and staff, is pleased to announce the “Immigrants Aspire!” scholarships and essay competition. Three scholarship awards – a grand prize of $2,000 and two runner-up prizes of $500 – will be payable directly to each winning student’s college or university.

Cook County Board wrestles with immigration ordinance amid heated criticism

Faced with criticism that hardened felons are being set free to commit more crimes, Cook County officials wrestled last Thursday with a controversial local ordinance that prohibits the sheriff's office from cooperating with detention requests from federal immigration officials.

Senators again ask DHS for response on Cook County, IL immigration ordinance

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and a group of senators sent a letter on Jan. 30 to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder pressing them about "turning a blind eye to jurisdictions that actively promote safe harbor immigration policies, like Cook County.”

Preckwinkle fires back, defends jail policy to U.S. immigration chief

In a strongly-worded letter to John Morton, head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says that the county’s non-cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not put public safety at risk.

Federal immigration chief: Cook County noncooperation with ICE may be illegal

Cook County’s controversial immigrant “sanctuary” policy, which critics say paved the way for a suspect in a deadly drunken driving crash to bond out of jail and disappear, may very well violate federal law, the nation’s immigration director said in a letter to County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

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