Donald Trump is waging an authoritarian assault on neighborhoods across Chicago right now. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are violently snatching Chicagoans off our streets, engulfing our neighborhoods and schools with clouds of tear gas, and brutalizing those who speak up against them. As the city council member representing the city’s Thirty-Fifth Ward on the Northwest Side, I’ve watched this dark period in Chicago’s and the United States’ history with horror. But across the city, neighbors are organizing to defend immigrant families.

In the Northwest Side neighborhoods of Humboldt Park, Belmont Cragin, Logan Square, Avondale, Albany Park, Hermosa, and Irving Park, residents are distributing “Know Your Rights” information and our regional ICE-sighting hotline number through door-to-door canvassing. Our Northwest Side Rapid Response group, a coalition of neighborhood-based organizations, elected officials, and area residents, has formed patrols and teams that monitor and respond to immigration enforcement activity in our neighborhoods.

Trump wants to terrify Chicagoans into submission. We aren’t having it.