Here & Now 's host Lisa Mullins speaks with Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez, a Democrat, about why he wants to work with President Trump's administration on immigration. Chicago is a sanctuary city and currently bans local police from working with federal immigration officials.

Leaders across Chicago are denouncing threats of immigration raids by the new Trump administration as the immigrant community anxiously watches and waits. Cardinal Blase Cupich calls the reports “profoundly disturbing.

Business leaders and employers across the United States, including in Chicago, are raising alarms over immigration raids as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to implement his mass deportation policy.

President Donald Trump has said immigration crackdowns will begin soon. It's not clear where, but in recent days Chicago has come under the spotlight. Immigrant communities in the city are bracing.

Migrant communities in cities from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles remain on edge after President Donald Trump vowed to start mass deportations and issued orders including handing immigration agents power to enter churches and schools,