CHICAGO – The man in a blue Hawaiian shirt paced up and down the line of fellow protesters outside the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, shouting into a megaphone with the fervor of someone leading the sermon at a megachurch.
“They are not welcome in this city!” he yelled. “This is an immigrant city!”
The “they” he meant were three U.S. Department of Homeland Security representatives inside the Loop hotel at the BestHire career fair looking to recruit new hires. The man with the megaphone was one of a small but loud group of around 20 protesters who gathered on Thursday, responding to the presence of the DHS workers…