Immigration news in Chicago

Nelson County, Ky., jailer Justin Hall shows an electric shock glove that is used at his facility, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, in Bardstown, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

Army study found shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear

By Ryan J. Foley

October 6, 2026 at 12:17 p.m.

By RYAN J. FOLEY The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees...

Marimar Martinez, center, listens while her attorney Chris Parente, left, speaks, Oct. 5, 2026, at his Chicago office about filing of a federal lawsuit over her shooting by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz last year. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Lawyers for Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent call for criminal charges

By Jason Meisner

October 5, 2026 at 2:47 p.m.

Attorneys for Marimar Martinez, shot by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz last...

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Sept. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Supreme Court term begins with cases on climate change, immigration and gun rights

By Lindsay Whitehurst

October 5, 2026 at 6:13 a.m.

The Supreme Court’s new term begins Monday with cases on climate change, religious rights and...

Families arrive for a court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on July 31, 2026, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America/TNS)

Court ruling narrows pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients

By Tribune News Service

August 14, 2026 at 8:04 p.m.

The Trump administration has largely ended a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients who marry...

Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez, 27, of Lyons, leaves Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after a hearing for a plea deal for impeding a federal agent during a Midway Blitz operation on April 15, 2026. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

Man pleads guilty to misdemeanor in Midway Blitz case originally brought by ‘Broadview Six’ grand jury

By Jason Meisner

August 14, 2026 at 2:08 p.m.

A felony conviction secured by federal prosecutors stemming from a traffic altercation during Operation Midway...

FILE — Inmates stands at windows at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, N.J., as demonstrators gather outside, May 28, 2026. The deaths of three Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees in less than eight months have raised urgent questions about the medical services provided at Delaney Hall and at other detention centers, with immigrants and local officials describing haphazard health care. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

Deaths of 3 ICE detainees prompt questions about medical care

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

August 14, 2026 at 8:25 a.m.

The deaths of three ICE detainees in less than eight months have raised urgent questions...

A Favorite Healthcare Staffing office along the 5500 block of North Cumberland Avenue on Oct. 11, 2023, in Chicago. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Illinois audit: State agency paid staffing firm $78.5M for contractors not actively working

By Jeremy Gorner

August 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Illinois auditor general found several oversight issues with the state's Emergency Management Agency-Office of...

New York Attorney General Letitia James, flanked by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, left, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, takes part in a press conference to announce action against ICE overreach in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

ICE’s plan to give officers electric shock gloves draws outrage and fears of misuse

By Ryan J. Foley

August 12, 2026 at 5:20 p.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced...

Federal agent Adam Saracco arrives for at the Maywood Courthouse on March 24, 2026. Saracco has pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor battery for throwing a protester to the ground. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

ICE agent pleads guilty to battering a protester at Brookfield gas station

By Madeline Buckley

August 12, 2026 at 3:57 p.m.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of...

FILE – Federal agents walk down a street while conducting immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy, File)

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

By Ryan J. Foley

August 12, 2026 at 8:35 a.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful...

Marimar Martínez listens to her attorney, Christopher Parente, testify about the day she got shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during an Illinois Accountability Commission hearing at the Michael A. Bilandic Building in the Loop on April 28, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

10 criminal complaints filed with Chicago police stemming from Operation Midway Blitz

By Sam Charles

August 11, 2026 at 3:12 p.m.

The Chicago woman shot five times last year by a federal immigration agent was among...

Will County Courthouse in Joliet. (Samantha Moilanen/Daily Southtown)

Man arrested in Mokena with Molotov cocktails, map of mosque facing immigration proceedings in ICE detention

By Evy Lewis

August 10, 2026 at 3:10 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said ICE lodged a detainer with the Will County...

FILE – Armed National Guard soldiers from West Virginia patrol the Mall near the Capitol in Washington, as part of President Donald Trump’s order to impose federal law enforcement in the nation’s capital, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Washington grapples with a National Guard deployment extended until 2029

By Gary Fields

August 10, 2026 at 12:58 p.m.

It’s been 12 months since President Donald Trump announced a crime emergency in Washington, pledging...