The Illinois senators cited at least 50 documented instances of immigration agents breaking car windows, entering private property and pepper-spraying and body-slamming U.S. citizens.

Most of those arrested were swiftly shuttled to a sprawling array of detention centers in 13 states, many with reports of troubling conditions.

January 1985 began with the city assisting the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in its efforts to arrest migrants who were working behind the wheel but lacked permanent legal status.

Tear gas appeared to be deployed during Tuesday's crackdown, which community members say netted at least 15 people across the area.

A brazen encounter between a Chicago woman and federal immigration agents has sparked widespread concern about law enforcement practices and civil liberties protections in immigrant communities. The incident took place Tuesday morning in the Brighton Park neighbourhood on the city’s Southwest Side,

Minutes later, Bovino started arguing with Evanston mayor and congressional candidate Daniel Biss at the store’s parking lot about whether the agents had a warrant to conduct arrests. Bystanders continued yelling and blowing whistles as agents loaded a man in a black hoodie into their vans.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General is conducting an audit of the Chicago Housing Authority to scrutinize its procedures around verifying residents’ immigration status and criminal backgrounds, according to documents obtained by the Sun-Times.

A federal appeals court has blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago-area immigration crackdown.