BROADVIEW, Ailing. – Immigrant rights teams gathered Thursday to demand the rapid launch of a Chicago grandmother detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) throughout a routine check-in earlier this week.
Activists are holding. a midday information convention exterior the Broadview Immigration Processing Heart to name for the discharge of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda. That press convention will likely be streamed within the dwell participant on the high of this story.
Chicago grandmother detained by ICE
The backstory:
Chavez Pineda was taken into custody on Wednesday throughout an appointment on the Intensive Supervision Look Program workplace in Chicago, regardless of being topic to digital monitoring by an ankle bracelet, in response to organizers.
Her attorneys stated she complied with the check-in order and arrived with authorized illustration, however was detained after ready greater than 90 minutes. ICE brokers reportedly instructed the attorneys to go away the constructing following her arrest.
Organizers stated Chavez Pineda has lived in the US for a decade and has no prison file.Â
Supporters on the rally will categorical outrage at what they described as “shock detentions” throughout routine appointments, a follow they are saying is more and more focusing on immigrants with no warning.
Chavez Pineda has been a vocal advocate for immigrant rights in Chicago, working as a development laborer and volunteering in native organizing efforts. Her supporters stated her detention sends a chilling message to others within the immigrant neighborhood who’re following the authorized course of.
ICE has not launched a press release relating to her detention.Â
Chavez Pineda stays in custody as supporters proceed to name for her rapid launch.
The Supply: The data on this report got here from Organized Communities Towards Deportations, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights attorneys for Gladis and elected officers.
