A calm has settled over the Chicago area this spring after months of chaos last fall, when masked federal immigration agents roamed neighborhoods, often deploying tear gas and other aggressive tactics while arresting people.
Groups of U.S. Border Patrol agents no longer are making surprise visits to Michigan Avenue or marching through Little Village, Back of the Yards and other neighborhoods.
But immigration enforcement hasn’t ended. A WBEZ / Chicago Sun-Times analysis of data from the Deportation Data Project, a collective of lawyers and academics, has found that 580 people have been detained in the Chicago area from Jan.1 through mid-March…