Hundreds of Migrants Self-Deporting from Chicago

Many Mexican nationals illegally living in Chicago are self-deporting even before President Donald Trump steps up enforcement in the Democrat-run city.

“Hundreds of unauthorized immigrants and asylum-seekers in the Chicago area have turned to Julie Contreras, a Waukegan pastor and activist who runs the nonprofit United Giving Hope,” according to Crain’s Chicago Business. So far, “she has helped repatriate some 200 undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers,” the report says.

Foreign nationals are finding their incomes dwindling, customers for their shops and businesses thinning out, and family members worrying over the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Crain’s reported.

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Many of these migrants come to America to use our country to make money so that they can send it back to their home countries. It is a practice called “remittances,” and migrants send more money out of the U.S. and into the third world than Congress dedicates to foreign aid.

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But the migrants Crain’s spoke to pointed out that they are feeling very uncertain amid Trump’s crackdown on immigration. Some fear being temporarily sent to a U.S. ICE detention center and facing uncomfortable conditions. But, even worse, they fear being sent to a country they are not even from.

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