On September 8, the Trump Administration launched ‘Operation Midway Blitz to increase the number ICE raids on immigrant communities in Chicagoland. As director of the Casa DuPage Workers Center, Cristobal Cavazos, explains to Clearing the FOG, this initially led to widespread feelings of fear by residents, but organizers turned that into power by creating rapid response teams throughout the region to alert people when ICE comes to their neighborhoods and confront the ICE agents. The teams also do outreach and hand out Know Your Rights information to community members. A growing coalition of immigrants’ rights, faith, and other groups is holding protests daily, including at the Broadview detention center, despite the officers attacking demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets. Cavazos describes how activists throughout the country are sharing information and resources and why it is critical to be in the streets right now.
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Cristobal Cavazos is the director of Casa DuPage Workers Center. After studying Spanish and international studies at North Central College in Naperville, Cavazos completed his masters in political science at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb and became active in the DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition. Spurred by the proposal of the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (aka the Sensenbrenner Bill) and the immigration reform protests that followed in 2006, Cavazos cofounded Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, a community-funded activism group, in 2007 with Rafael Vieyra.
