'We put safety over money': Some cities are canceling cultural events due to fears of ICE raids and deportations
Source: CNN US
Updated 6:25 AM EDT, Sat May 3, 2025
CNN — For the past 45 years, Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood has celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a parade featuring Mexican bands, floats and dancers, and a festival at a local park. But this year’s celebration, which attracts up to 300,000 people annually, has been canceled.
Chicago is among several communities across the country that have canceled or scaled back cultural events due to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Event organizers said many Latinos, whether legal or undocumented, fear being arrested if they gather publicly in large crowds. Advocates also report that some are afraid to attend church, go to work or take their children to school.
Since January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has carried out raids in so-called “sanctuary” cities like Chicago, which limit cooperation with the federal government in enforcing immigration law. Trump has also authorized ICE to target schools and churches, as well as deport undocumented immigrants for alleged gang ties, often based on limited evidence.
ICE has arrested nearly 66,500 undocumented immigrants and removed about 65,600 in the president’s first 100 days, according to newly released agency data. “We don’t want to take a chance and put our community at risk,” Hector Escobar, president of the Casa Puebla and Cermak Road Chamber of Commerce, said. “It’s a loss economically, but we put safety over money.”
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Doesn't always repeat but all to often it rimes. We're already semi mirroring 1930s Germany, if this doesn't get stopped soon it will only get worse. 
