Immigrant Rights

CU leaders have partnered across communities to advance a shared vision to create space for collective healing and action to ensure that all families feel safe in their communities. Through this alliance building approach, CU leaders have advanced policies that promote the rights of immigrant families through a racial equity lens. These efforts have resulted in reinforcing sanctuary city ordinances at city, county, and state levels and the expansion of city IDs to provide communities, including undocumented families, individuals who are facing homelessness, and returning citizens, access to critical city resources.

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CU leaders are constantly engaging immigrant families in immigrant “Know Your Rights” trainings and developing strategies to develop response teams across neighborhood institutions, and building new Black and Brown alliances to advance racial equity across the city and state. Through this framework, we have worked with allies to make Illinois the most welcoming state to immigrant families.