Illinois, including Chicago, has seen an increasing number of immigrants, many of whom come from Mexico. Immigrants are now engrained in communities all over the state. In fact, one in seven Illinois citizens is an immigrant, while immigrants make up over 20 percent of business owners... read more

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) won't receive help from the Chicago Police Department (CPD) because of restrictions placed on city officers and employees. However, ICE essentially manipulated the CPD into responding to its operations in order to bring them into the... read more

Immigrants who have received a green card that displays a two-year expiration are known as conditional residents. It's important to act fast to establish permanent residency because that expiration date applies to both the card and the individual's residency status. What Exactly Is... read more

A Supreme Court ruling that will decide the fate of DACA is likely to come late this spring. On November 12, the Supreme Court seemed in favor of the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has enabled almost 700,000 undocumented... read more

While the Trump Administration has made numerous attempts to curb legal and illegal immigration, the immigration court backlog has swelled from 542,000 cases in Jan. 2017 to more than 1 million as of Sept. 30, 2019, leaving people in Chicago waiting years to have their hearings before an... read more