by hannahgonzalez | Dec 9, 2019 | Fearing the Law
By Hannah Gonzalez, Medill, Immigrant Connect It’s Saturday in late Sept. 2019, in Pilsen, and Francisca Lino is making a sign with a marker and paper in the front hallway of the Lincoln United Methodist Church (LUMC). “No use esta puerta use la del jardín,” the sign...
by nathanansell | Dec 7, 2019 | Fearing the Law, Problems with Papers
By Nathan Ansell, Medill, Immigrant Connect It’s another Sunday service at the Lincoln United Methodist Church. Between readings from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, lively musical interludes fill the pews with rhythm. Many of the church-goers play instruments or...
by nathanansell | Dec 7, 2019 | Fearing the Law
By Nathan Ansell, Medill, Immigrant Connect “There’s a lot of comments from people. They’re being taken, anywhere, everywhere, anywhere you go,” said one Chicago resident* about the fears of arrests and deportations in Chicago, a city known to be a welcoming or...
by aqilahallaudeen | Dec 31, 2018 | Fearing the Law, Problems with Papers
By Aqilah Allaudeen, Medill, Immigrant Connect Marian Aldisi recalls the incident with horror and indignation. Last summer, on July 21, she was forced to remove her clothes and was strip-searched. She remembers the settings; three different interrogation rooms in...
by maryhall | Dec 14, 2018 | Fearing the Law, Good Question
By Mary Hall, Medill, Immigrant Connect When Estela De Los Rios and an FBI agent came to Santiago Perez Navarro’s door, he didn’t realize his “employer” — a woman named Betty — was acting illegally by withholding his salary and immigration documents, threatening him...
by Jack Doppelt | Nov 27, 2017 | Fearing the Law, Good Question, Problems with Papers
By Siobhan Neela-Stock, Medill, Immigrant Connect It should have been simple. All she was doing was planning to visit her family. But for Emma*, it was anything but simple to return to Uruguay. Her grandmother was not well and she missed her older sister, who had just...
