Chicago demonstrators providing for the threats of Trump’s deportation

Several thousand demonstrators went beyond Trump Tower while the sun started to bed in downtown Chicago on Saturday, protesting the threats of US President Donald Trump to flood the city of immigration agents.

The demonstration came after fears of increasing deportations have cooled a celebration of the day of Mexican independence normally noisy, because Trump reported his intention to strengthen the application of immigration on social networks.

In an article on social networks describing itself as an American military officer of the film “Apocalypse Now”, Trump wrote, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”, above an image of the president in juxtaposed uniforms against the flames and the horizon line of Chicago.

For many demonstrators, threats have felt personal.

Tracy Quinonez, 50, said that his father, recently deceased, came to the United States of Guatemala as a refugee. “I’m here for him,” she said. “They are not criminals removed from the street. They are torn families.”

Quinonez, who, like many other demonstrators, waved the blue stripes and the red stars of the City of Chicago’s flag, told Reuters: “They really chose the bad city.”

The demonstrators also opposed Trump threats to deploy national guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, which would be an extraordinary effort to militarize the third city in the country. On Wednesday, however, vice-president JD Vance said that there were “no immediate plans” to send the National Guard to Chicago.

Trump, a Republican, mobilized troops in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, cities which, like Chicago, are led by democratic politicians.

Peg Devlin, 76, said on Saturday that she was walking against what she called the rise of fascism, which, according to her, had fled to Europe.

“I have never experienced what my mother experienced as a German Jew,” said Devlin, “I’m not going to sit down and watch that happen here.”

Lisa Matuska, 39, has traveled the route with her two young children because she said: “I think they should see that if there is something with which you do not agree and you are crazy, physical presence is a good way to show it.” She also praised the event organizers for her safety.

Elsewhere in the city, the threat of deportations had a frightening effect over a normally festive month during which many celebrations of the Mexican independence day take place in all Chicago.

A parade to mark the holidays in the historically Mexican district of Pilsen has become silent and nervous.

In a break from traditional celebrations, whirling folk dancers dotted with sparkling jewelry and multicolored dresses by sliding distributed “know your rights” of brochures to sparse crowds.

The horses wore the colors of the Mexico flag in the tail, while their riders wore neon-orange whistles around their necks in case they have to alert the participants to immigration and customs agents. Along the touch, volunteers also watched the ice.

“This place would normally be packed,” said Eddie Chavez, a pilsen resident for life, while waving a Mexican flag in a single row of lawn chairs along the parade road. “Now it’s empty, like a ghost city.”

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Democrat and Vocal Critic of Trump, said on Tuesday that he thought that Ice Raids would coincide with the Mexican independence day festivals scheduled for this weekend and next weekend. Certain Mexican festivals in the Chicago region have been postponed or canceled among the fears of the immigration raids.

“We are afraid, but we are here,” said Isabel Garcia, a dancer from the Saturday parade. “We are Mexicans. We have to celebrate, and they will not stop.”

Ice has not responded to requests for comments on the question of whether she had sent more agents to Chicago, and residents said they had not significantly seen the application of the Immigration Act so far.

In addition to Chicago, Trump suggested the possibility of deploying troops in Baltimore managed by the Democrats in Maryland, as well as in the state led by the Republicans of Louisiana.

Trump last month deployed national guard troops in Washington, DC, saying they “restore law, order and public security”. Data from the Ministry of Justice show that crime in the national capital has reached a 30 -year hollow last year.

The president sent 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 American navies in active service in Los Angeles in June, against the wishes of the Democratic Governor of California.