Chicago Mayor Johnson Says City Will 'Hold Firm' Amid Concerns Of Future ICE Raids At Mass Events

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During a press briefing on Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked about potential ICE raids at mass gathering events like the Lollapalooza Festival.

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00:00Also this weekend there are going to be a couple of festivals in Chicago

00:04including Lollapalooza. There's also still a fear in the immigrant community

00:09about a possible targets for ice raids in cultural events and one of these

00:14festivals is Fiesta del Sol in Pilsen. Is the city ready and especially to avoid

00:18what happened on June 4th? We are ready. We are ready. We are a welcoming city.

00:23We're going to hold firm to our position as I said earlier. The Trump

00:27administration attempted to sue my city. We pushed back, obviously, and we won that

00:35lawsuit. Every single thing that this administration has attempted to do to

00:40bring division and fear in our city we continue to fight back. Now that fear and

00:44anxiety is real. I was just with Senator Villanueva and Alderman Sancho Lopez

00:50walking the blocks in their communities particularly after the white supremacists

00:54attack on those communities with the swastika and the hate crime essentially

00:59that was moved about in those neighborhoods and I talked to some of

01:04the business owners there and people are afraid to go out and go grocery shopping

01:07and so right now we are planning events, public events, where we can all go out and

01:11grocery shop together and show solidarity with our immigrant community. Our

01:14immigrants play an incredible role in the soul of Chicago and as mayor of the city

01:18of Chicago I'm going to continue to stand firm to protect undocumented families,

01:21immigrant families because they play a crucial role in who we are in the culture

01:25of our city.

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