{"id":23881,"date":"2024-11-06T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=23881"},"modified":"2024-11-19T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:40:12","slug":"los-inmigrantes-de-chicago-reaccionan-a-la-reeleccion-de-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/11\/06\/chicago-immigrants-react-to-trump-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Con la victoria de Trump, los inmigrantes de Chicago juran \"contraatacar\""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Before Donald Trump was elected president for the first time eight years ago, members of Chicago\u2019s immigrant community gathered at Casa Michoac\u00e1n in Pilsen to watch the 2016 election results unfold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, immigrant community leaders came together again at the community center to respond to Trump\u2019s defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential elections.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had a sleepless night\u2026and it brought back memories of being in this room in 2016 and knowing at about nine o’clock at night what was going to happen \u2014 knowing that Donald Trump was going to be elected President,\u201d said State Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-12. \u201cIn 2016, we thought that we were all going to be gone. And we’re still here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leaders from immigrant-serving community organizations and state elected officials spoke at the Wednesday meeting, hosted by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The meeting included members of Casa Michoac\u00e1n, United African Organization, Mano a Mano, Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, PASO West Suburban Action Project and Arab American Family Services.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though many expressed anxiety and disappointment<\/a> in Trump\u2019s reelection, they also shared plans to bolster protections for immigrants and refugees in Chicago and Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dulce Ortiz,\u00a0executive director of the Mano a Mano Family Resource Center, said they are launching a response plan immediately. She said the plan involves \u201cknow your rights\u201d educational programming for immigrants. Additionally, they will be pushing for further restrictions in data-sharing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the expansion of immigrant rights at the state and local level, including protecting DACA recipients and expanding healthcare access.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs leaders of the immigrant rights movements, we are calling for a moment of unity across all oppressed and marginalized people, a moment to continue the resistance, and a moment to protect all of our people,\u201d said Ortiz.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For his second term, Trump pledged mass deportations,<\/a> greater restrictions for asylum seekers and limitations on access to citizenship and visas. He also promised to <\/span>reinstate his Muslim travel ban<\/span><\/a>, which barred immigrants from six <\/span>Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. in 2017<\/span><\/a>. President Biden later <\/span>reversed<\/span><\/a> the ban.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDay one, I will seal the border,\u201d the former president said at a <\/span>Pennsylvania rally<\/span><\/a> in October. \u201c\u2026and we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the gathering, organizers and legislators told the immigrant community and constituents they were ready to fight for immigrant rights and reiterated that Illinois, a longtime Democratic stronghold, is a welcoming and safe space for immigrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While Democrat Kamala Harris won in Chicago and Illinois, Trump won the neighboring states of Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Missouri and Iowa. <\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s reelection can be credited to the Biden administration\u2019s failure \u201cto address the root cause of people\u2019s pain,\u201d Rep. Kevin Olickal, D-16, said \u2014 alongside the Democratic Party\u2019s lack of immigrant representation, according to State Rep. Norma Hernandez, D-77.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s up to us as legislators to hold our party accountable, and not just here in Illinois, but all across the country who have hired people that don’t look like us to work on national campaigns who don’t understand our communities,\u201d Hernandez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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