>> Immigration-related arrests are surging nationwide.

Ice and Border Patrol made more than 10,000 arrests within a span of 5 days at the end of June.

According to a report by The New York Times and here in Chicago, immigrant rights advocates say they can feel the impact.

Joining us to talk about this, our Maria Orozco outreach coordinator at Street Vendors Association of Chicago.

Immigrant Justice Community organizer at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago and Diana Rashid State, director of legal defense at the Resurrection Project.

Thanks to all of you for joining us.

And first to you.

What kind of immigration enforcement have you been seeing are getting reports about in the last month?

>> Yeah.

In the past couple of weeks, we've definitely seen uptick of immigration enforcement and it's different than what we saw in the fall during Operation Midway Blitz where it was a lot more violent, a lot more flashy, but we've seen a lot of vice president at courts and really targeted Like obviously that they've shown up people's homes or even at grocery store, like very obviously targeting folks on the ground.

>> Diana is someone who feels requests for legal assistance.

What if you noticed over the past month?

Yeah, we notice a significant increase and the requests and the referrals that weekend from community members and from hot lines like the rapid response hotlines across the city and the state over the course of we keep track on a weekly basis of this data.

And in June, we noticed near doubling those requests from what we had seen in prior months, including March April and May.

When you say you're doubling, what kind of numbers are we talking about?

>> We're talking about we had seen of the detained referrals and request that we had been getting on a month.

It was hovering around 9200 referrals per month for the prior months.

>> And we saw just over 170 and in June, the so a significant increase over the prior previous months.

Maria, what effect is this enforcement having on communities?

Has a big effect because it it's affecting Americans are working class.

A lot of our vendors are being >> detained.

Some are being detained outside of the court.

The something we haven't seen.

been seeing few months they're starting to not come outside for 2 vendor stuff like that.

Their turf fight.

They're hearing ice coming into the homes.

They did detain one outside of his house and then another 2 outside reports.

So it is affecting the way that they're living in the way that they're making their income as well.

>> How would you say arrest tactics have changed since Midway Blitz, which of course we heard about the fall where they could turn up in any neighborhood.

>> I see that they are still showing These are still wearing their mask.

We've got some reports.

them and you see them or in their mask and then same vehicles with no license plates.

they're also still attacking some vendors.

I do know that they're also tackling some of the just people that are members, of course, and there's scaring them and still hurting them.

It's not as bad as it used to.

I know it decrease a little bit, but the tactics are still there.

They haven't better and such.

>> Ellen, for Midway Blitz to now.

How are you seeing Chicagoans respond?

>> I live about Chicago is that we continue to show strong for neighbors and some of the infrastructure that was built during operation Midway Blitz, especially around mutual aid.

And these rapid response network continue.

And people, even though we don't have the national tension in the same way before the volunteers and neighbors have stepped up during the fall, continue to step up today and continue to recognize ice vehicles in their neighborhoods called Family Support Network Hotline, which is 855-435-7693, like people are still manning the hot every day.

And so Chicago in still show up strong for their neighbors.

>> Dianna, explain how intensive legal assistance for immigration detention can be and why that is.

Yeah, it's very resource late labor intensive to be able to from from the very like to even reach someone who is detained to track down where they are detained because they're constantly being transferred.

We longer have ice attention here in Illinois, but they're quickly transfer to other states and often time the database that ice updates with people's information for poor.

They've been transfer to delayed and not updated.

So even finding the person to be able to schedule illegal consultation with them is a huge hurdle.

And then secure their release very resource intensive now because of recent policy changes at from the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Department of Justice saying that individuals who entered with out inspection are not eligible for immigration bond.

In many cases, it requires a habeas petition filed in federal district court to be able to secure some of these really sand.

That something that is you know, enormous change from the previous administration and something that was not necessary before.

So now you add layers of administrative burdens of legal work of additional expertise that's required.

Maria, you know, we're talking about how street vendors have been particularly by ice at court Tell me most little more about that.

What's happening to A few weeks ago, we had 2 vendors that were actually find in the city of Chicago downtown area for bending into downtown.

>> It is prohibited.

And then CPD find them and give them court at a different location that where they're normally Sena appear, which is an administrative hearing and they were sent a different court where they can misdemeanors and could see.

And when these 2 vendors, unfortunately, they When they stepped outside, they were detained and right away.

They transferred to Kentucky, a believer, Indiana.

both of them and they did end up signing their deportation other and their fortunately back home.

Now.

And it's very unfortunate.

And then we've been trying to get as much resources we can different networks to try to get should do their ports through zoom.

Luckily, we have help from the city that they helped us get lawyer and make sure these fines and these tickets are being.

You forgot they court through zoom today.

So they're not giving them any tickets anymore.

So we it's a process in order to try to get this through.

So but it's we've helped 15 last week on Thursday.

We just courtroom at the office and we were able to dismiss the case.

Ellen, what should people know about how this impacts the Asian-American community?

>> I think obviously the Latino community has been targeted and but the Asian-American community, although not as visible one in 8 Asian immigrants in Illinois is on document.

And what we're seeing is actually there's a lot of fear and panic in our communities and we stay quiet and don't access resources in the same way because we are not as visible.

So our communities are deeply impacted by the continual escalated immigration enforcement.

Of Diana, just a few seconds left.

What what legal rights remind people love regardless of their citizenship status >> we have the right to speak with a lawyer and they should reach out to organizations.

We have resources through city funding through state funding which have been critical to be able to provide a lifeline to people to be able to provide legal information and legal advice to know if there is relief that they can access in their case or is Mariah side in some situations, they may decide that they don't want to continue with fighting their case because of indefinite detention, Great Britain they have to make of what is a very tough choice and thanks to the