Mexican festivals in Chicago canceled amid Trump plans to deploy troops | Chicago

Donald Trump’s plan to place national guard troops and federal immigrants in Chicago already affects the city’s Mexican community.

Organizers canceled several local events of the Mexican Independence Day on September 16th.

People of Mexican origin make up about 21% of the city population. Count DataAnd organize annual events around the holiday Thousands of checks people.

However, Trump recently described Chicago as the “the most dangerous city in the world ve and said, uz We’re going in”.

Management plans to send from Los Angeles to Chicago as a part of an increasing effort to make immigrant arrests, most of which are working for customs and border protection, most of them, most of them. Chicago Sun-Times notified.

At least three events linked to the holiday were canceled or postponed. The organizers decided to cancel El Grito Chicago, an event that attracted 24,000 people last year and planned on September 13-14.

“This was a painful decision, but now holding El Grito Chicago is jeopardized the security of our community – and this is a risk we don’t want to buy” Website of the event stated. “When we broke down because of this decision, when we brought back this celebration, our aim was to create a safe, affordable, family -friendly, community festival for everyone.”

The anxiety in the third largest city of the country comes after Trump’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles and Washington DC.

Guardian, contrary to the President’s claims, Chicago is not among the most dangerous cities in the country and said that it fell to this year compared to last year.

Illinois had about 550,000 unauthorized immigrants in 2023, Pew Research Center. Governor JB Pritzker said he was worried about ice agents targeting participants at Mexican Independence Day activities.

“We have why to believe in Stephen Miller [the White House deputy chief of staff] Every year, he chose September to come to Chicago because of the celebrations around the Mexican Independence Day. ” Pritzker said at a news conference.

In addition to El Grito, the Mexican Independence Day parade and the festival in Waukegan suburbs were postponed until November and the Latin heritage festival in Wauconda was canceled Fox Partnership notified.

25 -year -old Galiela Mendez said, “It sounds like a slap on your face,” he said. Associated Press El Grito Cancellation. “I think we’re all on the sidelines because the same people who define our house in this way, but they never come here and see them themselves.”

Despite the uncertainty, on Saturday morning, people attended a parade celebrating the holiday in one of the Mexican neighborhoods of the city.

“My heart is like hitting a little because my heart is like hitting a little because I don’t know what to expect today.

By the way Trump published Upon the truth, Social was about to learn why Chicago was called “why the war department was called”.

On Friday, Trump signed an executive order for the Ministry of Defense authorizing this title.

The shipment, now referring to the Fattle of the Resurrection, “I love the smell of deportation in the morning,” he said.

Pritzker He answered in x“The President of the United States threatens to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal.”