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The family of Sylvio Viegas Gonzalez, who DHS says was the undocumented immigrant killed by an ICE officer near Chicago, calling the 38-year-old a devoted father, cherished friend, and kind soul. >> His girlfriend, Blanca Mora, telling NBC Chicago he had no criminal history, which an NBC News review of publicly available records confirms. The sound of Friday's gunshots caught on a nearby surveillance camera.The Department of Homeland Security and ICE saying the officer fired as he feared for his life after ...

All [Music] right, you are looking at live pictures of protests in Chicago. People pushing back against Donald Trump's threat to send in the National Guard and ramp up immigration enforcement. Meanwhile, Trump's rhetoric continues to get more violent and warlike by the day.Just today, he posted this. It's an AI picture on his social media site showing him kneeling in front of a fiery Chicago skyline with helicopters flying overhead. Writing, quote, I love the smell of deportations in the morning Chicago abo ...

We begin with President Trump embracing war against America's cities and expanding his federal crackdown while cities fight back. In Chicago, protesters took to the streets to stand up against Trump's threat to deploy the National Guard and ramped up immigration enforcement. While in Washington DC, huge crowds protested in opposition to the federal crackdown and National Guard stationed there.It came as ICE began new immigration enforcement operations in Massachusetts, setting up a fight between the Trump a ...

Are you dreaming about home when you're sleeping. >> Um, yes. I dream about my family, my friends, but it's just it's just really hard.>> What's it like when you wake up here. >> It's not my home. >> Imagine for a second that you're a hardworking high school senior.You're a student athlete and you are excited to spend one last year with your friends before going off to college to chase your dreams. You got your whole life ahead of you and suddenly it all falls apart. That is exactly what happened to 17-year ...

We are going to begin this morning with President Trump's federal crackdown taking aim at the city of Chicago. Local leaders are bracing for a major immigration operation after Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome confirmed plans to expand ICE enforcement in the city over the weekend. Meanwhile, President Trump has threatened to deploy federal forces there to tackle crime.Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Saturday in response. It directs the city's police officers not to collabora ...

[Music] We're coming on the air tonight with a rocky rush home from the holiday. Thousands of flights delayed as storms hit some of the country's biggest cities. And if you're driving, might be best to make the long weekend a little longer before hitting the road. We'll have a live report. Plus, the desperate search for survivors after a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan. The rising death toll and the latest on the massive rescue operation in the remote mountains near the border with Pakistan. Then, a rare ...

Immigration Enforcement & Public Safety - The administration is perceived to be using immigration enforcement as political theater, targeting non-criminal migrants instead of focusing on national security and public safety threats [9] - There's a tension between federal authority (ICE, FBI, Secret Service, ATF) to enforce immigration law and state/local officials' views on public safety, reminiscent of the civil rights movement [11][14] - Chicago's mayor issued an executive order preventing Chicago police from collaborating with ICE and requiring officers to wear uniforms without masks to distinguish them from ICE officials [4][5] - Cooperation between federal, state, and local law enforcement is needed to address national security and public safety threats like drug crimes, human trafficking, and gun crimes [23][24] - Concerns exist that large-scale immigration enforcement operations divert resources from addressing serious crime [24][25] Crime Rates & Prevention - Chicago reports overall crime rates are down, with homicides down by 30% and shooting incidents down by nearly 37% compared to last year [17] - Despite the overall decrease in crime, there have been multiple shootings over the holiday weekend, with over 50 people shot and at least 7 killed [17] - Budget cuts pushed by the Trump administration led to violence prevention organizations losing funding (nearly $500,000), potentially reversing progress [18] Legal & Political Challenges - The city of Chicago has filed at least 40 lawsuits and plans to continue fighting the federal government's actions [20] - Deploying the National Guard or Armed Forces raises legal concerns, potentially violating constitutional law [28][29] - Public safety is compromised if people are afraid of law enforcement, regardless of the uniform they wear [30]

Authorities in Washington state have been fighting the state's largest wildfire non-stop for almost two months. It's called the Bear Gulch fire. It's burned 9,000 acres since early July.Officials say it's only 13% contained. It is so big they've had to rely on contract firefighters. But a group of those firefighters who were battling the blaze had to take a threehour timeout from their work on Wednesday.You see, their camp was raided by border patrol officials and they were lined up and told to show their I ...

send reinforcements to high crime areas and not, you know, the mall. Yeah. I mean, you look at neighborhoods, Ward 7, Ward 8 in the city have much higher crime rates uh than Ward 2 and Ward Three, those Georgetown Northwest neighborhoods.They are, but those high crime rates neighborhoods are not seeing this surge in uh either military or police presence at the moment. That video that Pablo was just to talking about has been doing the rounds and joining us now is the Washington Post reporter Dan Rosenvag. He ...