I left behind friends and family who didn’t make it, and we don’t know what will happen,” she told CNN. “We’re worried about not being able to stay, about being sent back.” Since running for re-election,

Details of planned immigration raids are unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.

Immigrants in Chicago and other U.S. cities have been preparing for immigration arrests since President-elect Donald Trump won the November election.

Republicans in Springfield are calling on Pritzker to repeal the Trust Act, which bars Illinois law enforcement from engaging in immigration enforcement, but Chicago Deputy of Mayor of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights Beatriz Ponce De León said the city won’t bend when it comes to protecting the Chicago’s hardworking immigrant communities.

The plans include phone trees, Know Your Rights flyers, role-playing ICE encounters and passports for children.

President Donald Trump has promised a wave of deportations, which has caused fear and anxiety in New York City.

The U.S. Border Patrol ran rampant through Bakersfield in what immigration advocates say was nothing but racial profiling aimed at intimidation. More such raids are coming. First son Barron Trump was lauded as a "class act" for shaking hands with former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris at his father's inauguration on Monday.

The City of Chicago and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are vowing to protect immigrant communities as President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation continues to make waves. Trump's Department of Justice has now ordered federal prosecutors to investigate any local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcements.