About 500 people packed Thalia Hall in Pilsen on Thursday night amid a torrential downpour to voice their frustration with the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA) for not holding a hearing to probe allegations of cooperation by Chicago police with federal immigration agents sooner.
Since June 2025, Chicago police officers have responded to the scenes of federal immigration actions multiple times, raising questions about whether they violated Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance or the state’s TRUST Act. Both laws prohibit officers from assisting with immigration enforcement.
At the meeting, which at times grew raucous as audience members chanted and shouted down CCPSA members, members of the public described police setting protective perimeters around federal agents’ operations — which is expressly banned by the TRUST Act — preventing rapid responders from following agents, arresting protesters, and in one instance even hugging an agent…