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Organizers behind the two-day Music Grito Chicago are postponing this year's event.

>> The festival was scheduled to happen.

September 13th and 14th in Grant Park.

But organizers say after communication with local officials about this potential ICE activity, they're delaying the event, community leaders and residents across Chicago's communities have been gearing up for federal immigration agents who local officials, as we've said, believe will be targeting cultural events happening in the next month.

Our Joanna Hernandez joins us now from Little Village with an update.

Joanna has this had an impact on the Mexican independence?

Great.

>> Brian does.

As far as we know, parade organizers say that it is still on in this parade has been happening here in the heart of Little Village for nearly 54 years.

And local officials are saying ice is planning to conduct ice raids during parades like this one scheduled for this month.

And with residents still on edge, local community members are coming together to fight back.

>> The point is to try to instill fear.

I will say that want I think he targets us in a way because we're also very strong and our This isn't the first time said Trump is starting to Chicago.

>> Given what all this is one of the lead organizers behind for local Rapid Response group in Pilsen made up of volunteers.

They worked to protect their community by responding to calls of federal agents sightings.

They're part of a larger network of groups mobilizing around their neighborhoods to inform people of their rights.

He says their mission is to educate and empower people rather than instill fear.

Well, you collaborate with groups like the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Organize Communities against Deportations.

They have developed a series of training sessions and resources for individuals to access.

This includes a hotline where people can report I stick to Vitti, seek support in locating some of ICE custody, conduct connect them with an immigration attorney as well as health care resources.

>> The train people who want to support in other ways doing what we call me to watch.

And you can kind of think that is of like what we in the moment.

If there and abduction or some kind of enforcement activity.

What are best practices to say?

Identify if what you're seeing is actually ice or not.

>> The way that all that works together to support.

Families that are directly affected, collecting evidence for people's cases, but also evidence for legal action.

>> Chicago has a large Latino population with Mexicans representing 70% of this community.

Little village, community members are passing out whistles as part of an initiative called blow the whistle on ICE to alert people.

If they see I sightings in the area.

>> We have heard that.

And then they they turned off the cell phone towers and there was no way to communicate.

So if they hear to on, you don't have papers get away.

>> But that in the league as president of the Little Village Community Console, says their organization has assisted about dozens of families in completing legal documents.

These include letter, letters up, however, attorney for children in case their parents are detained in documents that attorneys can use to locate individuals taken by ICE.

He says her team is assisting over 30 families who have visited the center for clothing since many have stopped working due to the fear of deportation.

Meanwhile, community leaders are encouraging everyone who is feeling isolated or overwhelmed by what's happening to get active.

>> What's good for mental health is getting involved like showing up just something some was going to training learning about some of the staff, even going to a protest, whatever ways that people can contribute.

And it's not just the right thing to do.

It's not just strategic Lee.

What's going to be important for us to protect our communities.

It's also good.

>> And brand is these are the type of Richards that organizers are passing out to the neighborhood basically showing and identifying year and letting people know about their rights and other resources.

They confide in case they just get taken by