US EditionChicago Mayor Appeals to UN Over Federal Immigration Raids
Mayor Brandon Johnson called for UN scrutiny of federal immigration raids that caused a 10% sales drop in laundromats and widespread fear in Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods.
- On Friday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson testified virtually to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, urging investigation of federal immigration raids and SNAP cuts and accountability for President Donald Trump's administration.
- Operation Midway Blitz, DHS says, produced 3,000 arrests across Illinois and northern Indiana, while federal agents targeted laundromats in Chicago, a move Johnson says destabilized communities.
- Video evidence captures Border Patrol and ICE agents tackling and detaining customers inside Washland laundromat, 3807 W. Division St., while Johnson described tear gas at a children's parade and parents dragged from vehicles during school pickups.
- Workers and customers are avoiding businesses, shrinking incomes across neighborhoods as local laundromat owners and workers report fewer customers and detained employees who later self-deported, with owners posting 'No Trespassing' signs and locking doors.
- The U.S. refused to participate in its Universal Periodic Review, becoming only the second country to do so after withdrawing from the U.N. Human Rights Council under President Donald Trump.
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Chicago Mayor Urges UN To Investigate What He Says Are Human Rights Violations in America
The Trump administration, which accuses the Human Rights Council of ‘anti-American bias,’ withdrew the United States from the body in February and is refusing to participate in a routine review of its record.
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The Washington PostChicago mayor implores U.N. body to investigate ‘abusive’ immigration campaign
The mayor of Chicago on Friday invited a panel of independent United Nations experts to examine what he called the federal government’s “abusive immigration crackdowns” in the nation’s third-largest city.
Chicago Mayor Demands the UN Investigate the US for Deporting Illegals
Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council, sharing reports of what he claims are human rights violations within Chicago. His participation coincided with testimony from other U.S. municipal officials during the 50th Session of the Working Group for the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s held with the ACLU. Mayor Johnson, […] The post Chicago Mayor Demands the UN Investigate the US for Deporting I…
Johnson urges UN panel to hold Trump accountable for 'human rights abuses'
Arguing that “no country should be above international law,” Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a “worsening human rights crisis in the United States.”In a virtual appearance before the panel's members meeting in Switzerland, Johnson invited U.N. experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand abuses committed by Immigration …
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