Chicago Alderman: The Fear That Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Creating Is ‘Unconscionable’

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SIGCHO-LOPEZ: “Thank you, Boris, for the invitation. And we’ve seen a really long week. For many Chicagoans, this week has been — has felt like an eternity given the weight of the federal government, coming not to help Chicagoans feel safer, but to create panic and chaos, as we heard from the Reporter. We’ve seen Secret Service coming to target the schools, the panic, that is, to bring the immigration czar, so-called, with Dr. Phil even, in creating this as some sort of reality show, playing with the real fear of students, children, families who are terrified by the misinformation, by the threats of mass deportation, now they’re saying that this is a targeted surgical procedure, quote, unquote. But the fear that we see by students, by children, by families, by our neighbors, it isn’t called for. The unconscionable decision of targeting not only schools, churches. We saw, they targeted one of our churches in our community by some MAGA fanatics, coming, harassing our pastor, one of the local pastors, also trying to target hospitals. It’s unconscionable, the fear that is creating, this is not making anyone safe, it’s actually decline, hurting our businesses, hurting our city and it’s unconscionable that we see this from the White House. A president should be calling on actually addressing inflation, addressing so many of the issues on the ground. It is unconscionable that they are scapegoating and targeting immigrant communities and creating serious harm in our city.”