City Council members are calling for answers about the Chicago Police Department’s involvement in an ICE operation last month in the South Loop.
The CPD responded to the scene when a group of activists and some alderpeople clashed with federal immigration agents outside an immigration facility on June 4, and many alderpeople have questioned why police were there. Some alderpeople are now demanding that the CPD explain.
The City Council Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights is holding a hearing Tuesday on the matter. Its chair and members said it is time for CPD to speak openly about why officers stayed on scene — despite Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance prohibiting the CPD from participating in civil immigration enforcement operations or assisting ICE…