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  • 6 months ago
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked about potential ICE raids at mass gathering events like the Lollapalooza Festival.
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00:00Also this weekend there are going to be a couple of festivals in Chicago
00:04including Lollapalooza. There's also still a fear in the immigrant community
00:09about a possible targets for ice raids in cultural events and one of these
00:14festivals is Fiesta del Sol in Pilsen. Is the city ready and especially to avoid
00:18what happened on June 4th? We are ready. We are ready. We are a welcoming city.
00:23We're going to hold firm to our position as I said earlier. The Trump
00:27administration attempted to sue my city. We pushed back, obviously, and we won that
00:35lawsuit. Every single thing that this administration has attempted to do to
00:40bring division and fear in our city we continue to fight back. Now that fear and
00:44anxiety is real. I was just with Senator Villanueva and Alderman Sancho Lopez
00:50walking the blocks in their communities particularly after the white supremacists
00:54attack on those communities with the swastika and the hate crime essentially
00:59that was moved about in those neighborhoods and I talked to some of
01:04the business owners there and people are afraid to go out and go grocery shopping
01:07and so right now we are planning events, public events, where we can all go out and
01:11grocery shop together and show solidarity with our immigrant community. Our
01:14immigrants play an incredible role in the soul of Chicago and as mayor of the city
01:18of Chicago I'm going to continue to stand firm to protect undocumented families,
01:21immigrant families because they play a crucial role in who we are in the culture
01:25of our city.
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