'Pins on a Map': How Chicago students are tracking ICE raids

Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance

Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.

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It’s pitch-black and frigid in the parking lot of an Italian restaurant in Michigan City, Indiana, by the time a small group of volunteers and immigrants gather in a circle, arms resting on each other’s shoulders and heads bent in prayer. A pastor tells three Chicago-area men, who just hours ago had been released from an ICE detention center in Michigan, that God loves them. That any mistreatment they may have experienced didn’t escape his atten…

'Pins on a Map': How Chicago students are tracking ICE raids

These student journalists counter online rumor with facts and give locals maps of frequently targeted areas as panic spreads over whom immigration agents will target next.

'Pins On Map': How Chicago Students Are Tracking Immigration Raids

Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, independent media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track enforcement and collaborating on inf

‘Pins on a map’: How Chicago students are tracking ICE raids

Each red pin marks a sighting of federal immigration agents near university campus and the surrounding neighbourhoods. Read more at straitstimes.com.