President Trump confirmed his administration plans to carry out immigration raids. "I don’t want to say when, but it's going to happen. Has to happen—or we’re not going to have a country left,” Trump said from the Oval Office,

I’m in Chicago where immigration raids are rumored. A restaurant owner just broke down crying, she lost 30% of her clientele, they’re staying indoors. “Esto se va a poner feo.” whether there are raids here or not the $ blow, fear is already here. And people say that’s the point.

Trump's border czar Tom Homan took to Fox News last week to talk about the possible immigration raids, which could start as soon as Tuesday, January 21.

Restaurants and other businesses in Little Village, the city's second-busiest retail corridor, are seeing heavy worker absenteeism.

Immigration czar Tom Homan said Monday that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had “pulled back” a reported Chicago operation, after news of the potential plan leaked over the weekend, but that Americans will see the agency in action “real soon.

Activists monitoring for immigration arrests said they had seen no activity, but the threat of deportations continues and the local community should remain alert.