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Last month at the Illinois State Fair, Illinois U.S. Rep. Raja
Krishnamoorthi, D-Schaumburg, said the legal immigration system
needs to be reformed.
“So for undocumented folks, giving them a path to legalization,
ultimately citizenship for [Temporary Protected Status] and
dreamers doing the same for high skilled talent,” Krishnamoorthi
told reporters Aug. 13.
During a State Freedom Caucus Network Summit in Dallas, Texas,
last week, Texas U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Flower Mound, said
policy makers actually should be tightening up legal
immigration, not making it more lax.
“It does come with reducing legal immigration substantially, and
reforming and actually choosing who we think is going to benefit
to come into the United States,” Gill said on Sept. 6.
Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced
Operation Midway Blitz, an enhanced immigration enforcement
effort focused on Chicago.
George W. Bush Ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney said he
hopes the Trump administration listens to Pope Leo, an Illinois
native, and other Catholic and religious leaders about
immigration.
“I don't think the American people are going to continue to
support what's happening when they see the impact of higher
prices, because the loss of all of our Hispanic workers,” Rooney
told The Center Square. “That's one thing for sure, that they
would be wise to listen to Pope Leo.”
At an unrelated event in Bensenville this week, U.S. Marshals
Service Director Gadyaces Serralta said their measure of success
in Chicago with Operation Midway Blitz is saving lives.
“So, every life saved is a success,” he said. “We've been saving
a lot of lives here in our surges.”
The Department of Homeland Security announced the operation
Monday in honor of Katie Abraham, who was killed last January in
a crash involving a noncitizen migrant.
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