community input.

Operation Midway Blitz is still underway in Chicago.

But despite fears of enhanced immigration enforcement, the little village, Mexican Independence Parade took place this weekend without any issues today.

Events continue for a grito.

An annual celebration marking Mexico's independence.

Our Joanna Hernandez joins us now from help and where the festivities.

It sounds like they're taking place.

Joanna, how's it going And what a beautiful day for a best all likely.

Is like you mentioned number alive.

The family be more trick, Ali.

And take a look here.

>> Their music playing and you people getting and their families and then near the organizers are holding the event outside Saint Paul Catholic Church, too great of a space for people come together without right hand security.

They set up barricades in area station security personnel here now, the Mexican Culture Committee of are hosting this event celebration.

They hold every year.

But this year, maybe they had find a place where people felt same in the chart actually invited organizations almost a Organizers say they have several safety protocols, including a rapid response team monitor for ages.

We've passing out flyers.

Organizers emphasize that serves as teacher for the community making significant of all.

They need this celebration honors the beginning of and the independents moment when great reason called write out a video that or the cry of Dolores and Mexico, the fight to gain independence from Spain.

Typically it spans 2 days and includes various events like this one this year, attendees can look forward to a variety of special Mormon says we're hearing them now in the background, might actually band that will lead into the main celebration during the event organizers and the priest will reenact a good.

Even I spoke with the parishioners from the church stressed the importance of continuing celebrations like this despite the threats posed by ICE agents, she says as a Mexican-American, they celebrate the 4th of July and people should also have a safe space to celebrate their roots.

>> It's so.

>> Right.

Ugly.

To the point where it's like really who's a criminal here.

We've seen men coming up.

All right.

These people coming up to our brothers and sisters and your mask, who is truly the criminal I'm just saying you're saying you're getting all the criminals.

Well, why the percentage?

So it's something different.

Stop lying to us.

You keep in you to lie heap and intimidating our brothers and sisters.

They should be able to get out there the hard-working people.

If children should be able to get an education.

You know why?

Why are they being stopped?

Why are these businesses will so much business?

Because people are coming up.

>> right I have to say that there's different energy today under the circumstances.

It's clear that the organizers and attendees are keeping spirit of this celebration alive and as know, has a large Latino population with many people who have been living here for generations that parents migrated here, making him a person or Latino.

He and his friends that it was important for him to be out here in the port of community.

>> Makes gains have been a big part of the United States growth in, you know, we work we lead and we sweat and we cry.

We don't complain.

We just go to work this out.

We do have do.

And we're also proud Americans not just because of a Mexican doesn't mean we hate America.

We love America.

Every you if you come out, you see Bailey people sleeping off of a dirt road, you know, just to try to keep it clean and all of our people.

>> And reading everything seems to be going smoothly again, this a live view is going on.

We up and play music.

It's been really nice.

Also people wear their traditional Mexican where, of I had to represent that where my traditional hearings, as you know, I'm a Mexican American and events like this are important honor my family who migrated here from Mexico.

And of what a beautiful way celebrating kickoff also found pair of the month.

Again, this event is going on till 10 o'clock.

And there's going to be a variety love, love, news,