How Trump’s ICE crackdown is impacting Chicago’s economy
CHICAGO — When customers walk in to Taquerias Atotonilco, a fixture in the Little Village neighborhood that has been in Raul Muñoz Jr.’s family since the 1970s, he hears a common refrain: “It’s dead out there.”
The observation has echoed in Little Village and Chicago’s other predominantly Latino neighborhoods since September when the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” which has led to more than 3,000 arrests throughout the Chicago area and northwest Indiana, according to the Department of Homeland Security. President Donald Trump has said immigration sweeps would target the “worst of the worst,” while court documents show that few of those apprehended in raids here had criminal histories.
