>> Hello and thanks for joining us in Chicago tonight, Latino voices I'm joined on this.

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>> Now, anybody that says it's coming down when you look at all of the migrant crime and all of the >> And claims this election cycle about immigrant crime.

Wait, wait, what do the numbers actually say?

Mexicans make up over 20% of Chicago's population.

A new report highlighting their history challenge still face.

And that Chicago celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

We here inspires you.

>> And now to some of today's top stories.

The jury deadlocks in the case of an 18 t executive accused of bribing former House Speaker Michael Madigan.

A federal judge declared a mistrial after the jury deliberated for nearly 15 hours before announcing a stalemate on all counts against a team TI, Illinois.

President Paul plus He was charged nearly 2 years ago in a 5 count indictment that alleged he engaged in a conspiracy to bribe.

Not again.

The parties will meet again early next week to decide next steps, including whether there will be a retrial.

Cta.

President Dorval Carter says a proposal to merge Chicago, 3 transit agencies won't make life better for passengers speaking at the city club today, Carter said state lawmakers must tackle a funding formula that has left public transit agencies fighting for scraps with more funding.

Carter says the CTA can reverse pass service cuts in create bold.

New options to meet future needs.

Carter in the leaders of Metra and pace, a merging their agencies won't create major savings or improve service.

>> I've been attending here and all over this region where there's been a never ending conversation around what traffic looks like versus what it really is, what we wanted to Well, if you want to have a world-class transit system, you have to prepared to pay for it.

>> We've got much more in Carter's pitch to lawmakers on our website.

The smell of smoke to we doesn't give Illinois police officers the right to certain adults car without a warrant.

The Illinois Supreme Court issued the ruling today saying the order burnt cannabis is insufficient on its own in providing probable cause to perform a warrantless search on the vehicle.

But the court says officers can legally conduct a warrantless search if the smell of smoke pot and other factors are at play.

Illinois legalized a purchase and use of recreational marijuana in 2020.

It's a victory for community leaders on the northwest side of Chicago in their years long fight against gentrification.

The City Council has unanimously approved the Northwest Side housing prevention ordinance, which covers gentrifying communities like Humble Park, Logan Square Avondale at most a and West town.

apartment building with up to 4 units goes up for sale.

Tenants will get the off the first opportunity to buy the building from their former landlord and property owners who want to tear down buildings of the same size will have to pay an additional fee of up to $60,000 per building.

Up next, challenging the narrative around immigrants in crime.

That's right.

After this.

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>> Claims of an immigrant crime wave has been a major talking point.

This election cycle.

However, immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes in U.S. Foreign resident.

That's according to recent data published in the National Bureau of Economic Research.

But presidential candidate Donald Trump has doubled down on the rhetoric calling for a mass deportation.

>> I can say this.

We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations were going to get these people out would bring back to Venezuela.

You know, he told Biden he's not accepting anybody back.

They moved or they're criminals.

Not all of them.

But the rest of moving in now the empty jails in Venezuela empty.

They're criminals empty.

The nest.

>> Joining us now to explain more our University of Illinois-Chicago history professor lead the effort on Sylvia DIA's director of mental health services at Area Neighborhood House and via Zoom.

We have University of California Davis, economics professor and the study's coauthor, Gulf that is.

Thank you all for joining us today.

Some I want to start with you.

Your study found that over 150 year period, immigrants have never been incarcerated at a greater rate than those born in the United States.

What does this tell us about the connection between immigrants in crime rates?

>> Thank you so much for being patient yet.

So that's that's part of the the or And then we have 3 communities and yeah, that's it.

That's it.

What we find we're finding that Florida come in years meet I mean, you know, where to cut the nation's great be with more.

Shifting that, you know, speed he was called big.

There's not much of a connection between if you need a truck crime.

>> so immigrants are contributing to violent crimes in high numbers in violent crimes have been steadily decreasing for the last 3 decades.

But it seems like we're always hearing about immigrant crime.

Some reports are saying Venezuela migrants are taking over Aurora, Colorado and Haitians are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, just to name a couple of things.

How did immigrants, particularly immigrants from global South, gets tear types as criminals and violent?

Well, they're not the first to be stereotyped in these ways.

And this narrative that immigrants are criminals.

>> Is a very old and tired textbook marketing technique.

And if you look at the 1700's, the Germans were aligned and the 1800's, the Irish later and the late 19th and early 20th century, Italians, Russian Jews poles, other southern Eastern European groups.

So this is a technique that political candidates in particular like to use to stir up anger, to stir up fear to get people to out them up and get them out to vote.

But the reality is that, you know, it's not the case.

You know, the few crimes that immigrants, my commit might get some station allies or exaggerated, blown out of proportion.

And then really, you know, make the headlines and cover or on the news.

>> And Sylvia, when you go to you should call, Chicago has welcomed over 40,000 migrants in the last 2 years.

You work with new arrivals looking.

You tell us about people's experiences arriving here at the shelters at this moment.

So it's very unfortunate to hear people cast judgment on them, right?

Especially if we're thinking about their contacts of exit a lot of these individuals not choose to leave their home, right.

They did not choose to come to a country that.

>> It's predominantly English, right where they did not choose to go through a whole migration journey where a lot of these individuals have disclose that they slept in the Amazon.

They have to go on by foot.

A lot of the path crossed through countries where they were also discriminated against.

Right?

Because unfortunately us as letting all sometimes we do discriminate against each other.

Right in a lot of have shared with me experiencing abuse in borders, various borders, right?

And up to when they get here.

Right.

A lot of them have arrived in the cold with no experience, right?

I had a mom had hypothermia because she arrived December, had no jacket, nothing to keep her warm and then ended up being hospitalized in the people that you're working with.

Are they aware of these narratives are being told about them?

>> I'm sorry.

What do mean like the narratives of?

I just talked about that.

They're stereotyping them as criminals.

You know, I think when they experience out in public, they are aware.

But when they first arrived, they don't realize it right there.

Just hear their focus is her family.

A lot of these individuals are just focused on feeding your kids, making sure they're safe.

>> Some of them are running away from from violence as well.

Right?

We have a lot of past army officials, right that are also being persecuted over there.

>> In Diego, part of your study says that immigrants today are doing better than previous generations, particularly when it comes to the rates in which they're incarcerated.

We do.

You think happened?

>> Are you happy that have to as we right, confined a I you know, you could simply not I don't need a shrink.

Always thought of targeting Ward fan.

You know, we actually find rematch the local state.

So we find that if you will bear, they're going great for conservation of in bathroom.

You know, you know, them, even if I did with debate.

So we can that number to put nation of would be.

So, you know, he how that and people we spoke ABC networking.

one thing that we do committing did and front road that Norman and where if you look at how we need who they are and who we people but I too.

Next with warning you of the better.

I don't But I do think doing, you know how it got to labor market.

I mean it they are for me.

So be seen to be part really fundamental 50 feet crime and and you know that will be laid Reno for FIFA, just going to say shun of nation that Even at of the nation more than they need a public >> And then if you believe the reports like this are important to debunk these narratives, oh, absolutely.

I think that there's a lot of work to be done re-educate the public and give them actual facts and data.

>> You know that the rhetoric that we're hearing from political candidates like the former president suggest that we are being overrun with immigrants that country is being invaded.

And if you look at the numbers actually, just as a point of comparison in 18, 80 cities like Chicago, New York, San Francisco.

We're between 40 to 45% immigrant.

If you add their children, they were up to 80% of the population were nowhere near that today.

And so I think that people really need to inform themselves and educate themselves about the facts, not just the hysteria and the rhetoric that circulating.

And Sylvia, what else needs to be done to better integrate asylum seekers into our communities?

He would say, I would say making sure their basic needs are met.

>> making sure they have housing that proper nutrition that's very important.

And I've had families that are living in hotel rooms living off of model time, right?

That's not proper nutrition for them.

And also support services like case management, mental health.

Right?

Because a lot of people are coming with traumatic experience.

A longer journey and do the same question.

Asker do believe are studies like this are important.

Absolutely.

As media said, it important for everyone to be informed and gold off of facts right at this point.

Many asylum seekers have been here for 2 years.

What do you want people to know about them?

I want them to know that their human right and I would love for people to put themselves in their position.

Right.

And think of yourself as a mother as a father.

Well, would you do if you know, because they have here, people make comments of all, why would they make their children go through that experience, right.

But when you're coming from a place, all right.

Again, thinking about the context of exit when you're coming from place where your children are watching teary deteriorate or you're waiting for someone to come and shoot.

You.

You're going to do whatever you need to make sure they're safe and healthy.

And then we only have a couple seconds.

But we talked and we've heard Trump talk about he if he is president, he is going to conduct the largest deportation history.

>> Quickly, can you talk about how the threat of deportation has been used in our country's history?

It's been used repeatedly throughout the 20th century, really.

And even before that.

>> And it's often and times of economic downturns, its target, a particular groups, Mexicans in particular have been the ones targeted in this way.

Will thank you so much for all of your input.

Thank U.S. And Canada.

>> Up next, we explore an extensive report on the city's Mexican population.

>> And a conviction that can find the biggest.

It's for money and newspapers called it the crime of the Century.

Palms Public enemy number one, all I could was fire look like a war They took stand and said, you know, that changed American history.

House music is more appealing than it is the sound I love time my dreams came from New Post story.

>> One in 5 Chicagoans have Mexican heritage.

But despite being a part of Chicago's since 1950's, there hasn't been a major academic study on their history and impact on the Windy City.

A new report released just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month aims to fix that.

Here to talk more about their findings are Luis with the founder and CEO of Latinos Broken a sandal Hoese family else, executive director and CEO of that Gas and North Bay ending that both the little president and CEO of Morehead is letting us in action.

Thank you all for joining us is and and I seen you guys again.

Great to see you.

anything.

please.

I want to start with you.

What was the inspiration behind pursuing the study?

>> Well, you know, the next in communities and large communities to Chicago.

And one of the things that we realized when we came together is that there was not a lot of information on who we are.

And so as we start to do work in our city, creating program me thinking about policies, was really important to create a baseline.

So we know where we are and where we want to go.

>> And Jose, what was the process like on collecting the state?

Okay.

Take me down through that journey.

>> Well, I mean, first that took a lot of his beating and bring sermon vote we really wanted to do because I mean, there's just so much information that's missing going be right.

of total.

says they want to spearhead getting us together.

But just coming up with a deal, what kind of data we wanted to collect.

Now, the most surprising thing was when we started collecting data and UNC started working on the problem, this project wasn't there just was not enough information to capture everything that we wanted to share, especially knowing you know, the settlers, the first Mexican sellers have been here since the 50's.

>> We want to go to you.

What are some of would you say?

The consequence, the risk of not having comprehensive comprehensive data available like this.

>> When it comes to making decisions on policy?

>> Well, I think for us it's really critically important is to make sure that we're thinking about this particular needs of ethnic groups and national origin groups within the just desperate here in Chicago.

So that's important.

think the other thing, too, is that we have to make sure that we are asking me what they want, but also doing research specific to them.

So one of the highlights of our approach doing this was doing focus groups.

We did.

Several focus groups asking community members.

What did they want to see in terms of committee growth?

But also what are the challenges with regards to identity leadership, health, education, economic development.

And that to us is really important to get that kind firsthand knowledge in a Identity is a big one.

I want to go back to the start of the report because it stood out addressing the problems in the hit TV series.

The Bear.

>> Which features know Mexican lead when according to the U.S. Census, about 44% of all cooks in Chicago are of Mexican origin.

Luis Y was an important to include this.

>> Well, I think in general, one of the things that we're seeing is that there's not a lot of representation that Mexico of Mexicans on a lot of levels.

So when you look whether it's government for land be nonprofit sector or, you know, media TV movies, you don't really see representation of the community sort report like this is extremely important because it gets the conversation started.

Now we can sit down and actually look at data and then look at the field and say does our population and our economic contribution match the positions that were being put in.

>> were your thoughts when you started watching the very real, as I think there's only like Mexicans in the credits are in the beginning credits.

>> I for me, it's more about the fact that again, you know, we are as councils and built Chicago continue to build this city can believe it or they're all over the country.

We have Congressman, we have we folks in Indian high levels of government, not enough, but we do have a lot of folks and our our leaders yet.

When you look at TV were not represented there, when you look at how funding is distributed among different communities and kind continue to lag behind.

So when is so so that's why it was important to tell his story and really take a focus.

Look and with whom he condos are.

And the fact that we've been here for hundreds.

so what actually shared with mean interest event.

told me it and they reminded me that anywhere you see corn, kind of state had a presence.

And you think about what some of the major experts is here for the staff or the state of Illinois part, you know, so we've been here much longer than people give us credit its really interesting that during the study or focus group covered health.

>> And the suburbs of data shows that two-thirds of Mexicans now live outside the city.

Can you explain the migration pattern and what were some of the notable observations you made from the suburban communities?

That's a great questions.

So the first thing is like the rest, United States, we have a housing crisis.

And so.

>> Our Mexican committee members, they're looking at affordable housing options.

Homeownership is incredibly attractive.

We have higher rates of home ownership than we even knew.

And it's hard to own in Chicago.

And so living in the suburbs is very attractive.

The other thing shone through the data that was we have higher household 4.3 in terms of our size.

And so we have multiple generations living together into the suburbs offers that option.

But the other thing we have to note is that the more recent immigrant, migration of McConnell's here in in the area, they're going directly to the suburbs are not stopping in the city anymore.

And as historical neighborhoods like Little Village and Pilsen become more expensive, they're moving southwest and then moving into the suburbs.

It's really interesting.

I mean, why my parents migrated here?

They went straight to Rogers Park or likes.

We know little pilsen and in the city.

>> Luis also from the study, we also saw the Mexicans make up 20% of Chicago's population and 70% of the Chicago's Latino population.

But it's still difficult for Mexicans to obtain a business loan or a home loan.

Why do you think that is?

>> Well, I think that, you know, when you start to look at the numbers, one in 5 people identify as being Mexican.

And so when we look at the resources that are coming into our community, whether it be a home loan, business loan and, you know, Mexicans are entrepreneur.

And so we want open businesses.

They're just have not been loans and resources that are offered directly to the community and better explain to them in a way that the understand it.

There are some loans and some things that are available for a community a lot of times our community doesn't trust what is coming.

And so, you know, we have to prepare information, cultural, sensitive way and those things are important.

>> will you say now moving forward that you want people to take away from this report?

I want people look at this report.

Look at that data.

Look at the information and know that.

>> You know, we he kind here and we are a very large population.

We very young.

So we're going to invest in any kind investment he kind of citizen investment in the city of Chicago in the future of our entire region.

>> And then the world would just share some of the policy recommendations that you want.

People here.

I think first of all, we need to collect national Think data from government organizations and not-for-profits that receive this information.

There are differences among the ethnic groups and not just with the left in a Jasper but other groups as well.

That's the first one.

I think the other one is that we have to make sure that we are encouraging the development educational attainment in our community.

One of the data points it was very shocking.

Is that Mexican students and CPS go to school every day, they have great attendance, but they are not having high performance.

We need to dig more deeply to that.

Why is that happening?

What is needed to provide the right wraparound supports percent of students.

86 1%.

6 of Mexican kids go to CPS in Chicago.

And so that's something that is really shocking when we know Education's our pathway to success.

And Lee is what is the goal now to get this information out?

So the goal right now is to talk to as many people as possible.

We've created this site, Mexican Chicago DOT org encourage everybody to go there.

>> Take a look at the report downloaded have conversations with your family.

Your friends have the conversations that work feel free invite us to come out and talk to people.

We need to talk and this is the first step in a long line of what needs to happen next couple years.

have a couple seconds.

So want to go around the room and just one word to describe your identity.

>> Mexican.

kind make Emma.

I love Thank you so much for all of you for joining And I up next.

We hear about cool some of you look up to.

But first, a look at the weather.

>> And singer Selena active is the Lourdes with writer.

Sandra seen settles and politician Jesus Garcia are known as Latino Trail Blazers, Chicago celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

We wanted to hear from you about a Latino person who was influenced or inspired you.

So we hit the streets.

And here's what some of you had to say.

>> person that I look up to the most is my mother by far.

I mean, she raised my sister and me.

She provided for us throughout our childhood through college.

And even when we've had some arguments, she's always been there for us.

>> A couple of people that go by the name the first was my grandmother, my on something.

She was a kindergarten teacher that was given to uplift marginalized identities and she was passionate and education, which by of that 2 go into education So when I mean, my spit look at hunting is a la Cruz.

>> And it into a book, a person, then we'll kid.

>> After side of the less see that get idea was put on Monday to.

>> This is to the Addie.

They they say that.

>> Woman that I think I look up to the most, who's been a really big inspiration for me has been a trans woman who was born and raised in this neighborhood.

Hitting was Reyna Valentino.

She was the first person to teaching about outreach about HIV prevention.

Unfortunately, she passed away HIV which led me to come into the field that inspired me to be able to lift up my community spread the awareness and get people tested so we can be able to go ahead and just overcome the stigma to some of HIV.

>> One of the most significant things that we did about 50 years ago is to have named a building foot full weight to walk up to him and that the first Latino main building in Chicago and the school was mostly Latino.

So at that point, we decided that in 1972 with probate the Walker let that died, they we will honor him for being a great baseball player, but a humanitarian because he was part of the civil rights movement to name the school after him.

>> And I have to say that my biggest role model has been my father.

He migrated to Chicago when he was 17 years old, worked really hard to open his small painting business and somehow got my 2 night through college.

So thank you, dad.

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