Elizabeth, a Chicagoan in the U.S. without legal permission and mother of three, is used to being involved in her community on the Northwest Side through volunteering at her children’s school and helping students.

The City of Chicago and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are vowing to protect immigrant communities as President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportation continues to make waves. Trump’s deportation pledge has been criticized by many in blue-state Illinois,

The City of Chicago and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are vowing to protect immigrant communities as President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation continues to make waves. Trump's Department of Justice has now ordered federal prosecutors to investigate any local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcements.

The Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate state or local officials who they believe are interfering with the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, saying they could face criminal charges, in an apparent warning to the dozens of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across America.

President Donald Trump's administration has directed U.S. prosecutors to criminally probe local officials who resist immigration enforcement efforts, intensifying a sweeping crackdown that Trump launched the day he took office.