The “non-regulatory guidance” on immigration enforcement actions was issued two days after President Trump was inaugurated for his second term.

Local Illinois law enforcement say the Illinois TRUST Act stifles their ability to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

As President Donald Trump's hardline stance on immigration continues in its first week, the debate between federal enforcement and local laws and policies is hitting a boiling point, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.

The White House says deportation flights have begun. In Illinois, the Pritzker administration is conducting a “know-your-rights” campaign for foreign nationals in the country illegally. At an unrelated event Friday,

"Guidance reinforces students’ right to education, regardless of immigration status, and advises school districts to develop local policies," ISBE said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have stepped up their detention of unauthorized immigrants, taking more than 500 people into custody on Thursday, almost twice the average number of daily arrests late last year.

After the Trump administration said schools and churches were not off-limits for immigration arrests, Aurora area schools brace for possible encounters with ICE.

Federal immigration agents carried out the first large-scale arrest operation in nationwide under the newly reinstated Trump administration this week, targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

Chicago Public Schools prevented officers from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according

A civil liberties group is concerned that state Sen. Terri Bryant is encouraging prison workers to circumvent the state’s sanctuary law.

"Our greatest concern is that people may choose not to come to us for help out of fear," said Northern Illinois Food Bank CEO Julie Yorko.

After Chicago Public Schools (CPS) initially claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited a South Side elementary school Friday morning, it was later confirmed that this was not the case.