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>> First off tonight, federal officials say Operation Midway Blitz has yielded more than 500 ice arrests in Chicago area since it began earlier this month, prompting a wave of protests and grassroots organizing volunteers from across the city are training to join neighborhood Rapid Response teams which respond to reported.

I sightings within minutes.

Other organizations have created know your rights campaigns and support networks for undocumented workers.

Joining us to talk about all that and more are.

About those are in Rica's president of the Little Village Community Council.

Miguel of a low Rivera executive director of the Latino Union of Chicago and Bertha and co-chair of the Latino Leadership Council Policy.

Gentlemen, thanks to all of you for joining us.

And welcome back.

that is our start with you.

Because the Little Village Community Council, you all been handing out hundreds orange whistles to alert undocumented residents of ISIS presence.

Hedge will come up with that idea and has been working.

>> I would like to thank our members are volunteers for being out We started in June and originally when we give up the whistle Beatles, what that what is that word?

when we met with our brothers and sisters over and and they and they look, when they're gonna deployed, the National Guard's and I seasons they will turn off cell phone towers.

So then we end up our campaign of letting people know, hey, if you blow the whistle, when you see and those that don't have legal status get away.

Close your doors and then we've got to team volunteers that actually go where there's ice ages they began.

Linda was so alerting the community and stopped or operative.

We stopped him from doing and the rest of connecting a family.

it does have an effect because his 3, 6 of us, going to squish.

That's what other than that.

asking a Florida and that, you know, you see that the communities organize has been working with, but if you would, if you have, I'm sure it's been used.

>> at the beginning when we were blowing the whistle I seasons.

>> They were confused.

Why is this guy going away?

So and people start locking doors, people start even the the block.

So they know what is that is an alert to the community that there are out there and for them to take the proper steps because they're not coming for criminals are coming for families.

They're coming for people going to work you know, this is another layer of trauma.

They bring to our neighborhood and that's where our team there's always available from 5 in the morning to 7 o'clock at night.

That's when they do their operation.

And we're out there every day.

Just put on the neighborhood.

>> They at a protest last week.

You spoke against ICE targeting undocumented people at places where work.

Here's a little bit of that.

>> In the last 2 days, ISIS target and Home Depot quarter hiring sites such as this one where we stand, where day laborers are neighbors who bailed pay fixed and beautify this city.

Have been the target of these unwarranted attacks.

>> House prices presence in communities in neighborhoods impacting people's willingness to go to work.

There is I think.

feels like an overwhelming sense of concern and But at the same time that that exists, I think there is just as much of an overwhelming sense of in need to connect as communities and they need to look out for each other.

So I've been able to witness both as part of my organization, we've had to navigate both right.

Both recognizing concerns and their fear, but also motivating to stand up for each other because one thing that we know and one thing that we've always known is the only people that will keep us safe is ourselves are like we say some what said about what.

>> The Latino Union, Chicago, you all set up volunteer powered worker support network to empower people to go back to work.

Tell us about that and how that how that works.

Correct.

let know.

Union has been organizing for 25 years at the 10 different corner hiring sites in the city of Chicago and now and suburban Cook County.

>> Part of our work has connecting with day laborers doing outreach with getting them to know their rights, both as workers, but also because many of them are can be on documented as migrant workers.

Now with the increased presence of ice of the corners for to currently in other states such as LA.

We have been preparing for months to mobilize groups of volunteers.

These are community members, people from all walks of life know the state labors and are signing up for shifts from 6 in the morning until 02:00PM and are there to keep an eye out on things and ensure that our working neighbors are just as safe as we all deserve to be safe.

So then should ice show outside, you know, day labors, for example, waiting outside the Home Depot Menards.

If ice should show up, what is the response from from those team members?

So we're integrated into the rapid response networks throughout the city we are connected with a family support network.

And then we're also replicating a lot of the tactics that we've learned from our mileage.

And it's really a citywide effort.

And we are just integrating the aspects of our work, which is day labors, which is domestic workers.

And to that broader community effort that's happening throughout Chicago, we know that you recently received her law degree from Northwestern been involved in creating some know your rights campaigns for people who are undocumented.

Tell us about.

>> Those campaigns and what what folks learn from Yeah.

So the idea has been with collaborating with partners all across the city has been a citywide coalition, a statewide coalition just at it.

But you Cayden community members that they have rights and to know their rights to exercise those rights.

What at the same time asking people who are maybe more protective of their U.S.

citizens to exercise their rights to have the right to film.

They have the right to alert community members and to use our privilege to collectively help each other out and protect one another.

There's also no same and I-70 will.

The people United will never be defeated and we all have to do our part to take care of one another to if you have citizenship like me, go out and document these things.

you community members that ice may be present blow the whistle, right.

Let people know and also shop at your local businesses.

Help them out because they're hurting right now.

And so it's a know your rights campaign, but it's also campy to exercise those rights and to let people know that we have will beautiful tradition in Chicago peacefully protesting and peacefully assembly and ensuring that all races, our rights are respected.

The Mexican Independence Day parade kicked off a little village last week early last week.

Despite that increased ICE presents Umberto, you at the parade along with about 30 attorneys ride.

You will feel that organizing that legal support is important in advance of events like that and didn't, you know, didn't what do you do for the energy of the parade?

Yeah.

I think working together will record response crews on the scene.

>> You know, it's going to take a collective effort right community residents for me, rapid response groups, legal support to document the things that need to be documented people in broadview exercising their rights people in back of the yards.

People in Elgin coming together and taking care of one another.

And with the legal presence does is it allows community members to know, hey, there's attorneys right?

There are people who like in conflict seek advice from what?

Why can just Lee not to know how to document and to de-escalate a situation.

And that's what we did at the Mexican Independence Day parade.

And now we're just planning to use our law degrees and use our legal resources to provide more legal support.

By the point, attorney volunteers to keep communities 2 key events to ensure that we're all doing our part and and helping the community out.

>> Real quick before we go, we've seen some protests across the city.

You just mentioned outside the broad view detention facility.

Here's a little bit of some of what we've seen.

>> Oh, my God.

Only.

My God.

>> couple for this out to all of you.

What do you make of advice is, you know, general use of force about those are?

>> You know that they're going to try to be aggressive as is as they can to show that.

We will get feared.

You know that your winter and a lot of the neighborhood that are not coming out.

And that's because there been so aggressive detaining mothers kick that a new fathers and in front of their kids.

So.

>> That's was Jen still Spirit awards and children, other community members.

Unfortunately, we're out of time.

Unfortunately, this is something we'll have to keep