ICE in Chicago is disrupting the lives of Chicago residents in dramatic and unprecedented ways. Families suffer as employed, tax-paying, undocumented individuals are afraid to leave their homes to work, take children to school, and acquire the most basic essentials, including medical care. The narrative is wrong: these are not criminals, they are everyday people underserved by a broken immigration system and unprincipled political practices.

People in this community are in need of rental assistance, groceries, legal assistance. This fund is established to provide direct assistance in the form of monetary donations and goods and services to those in need.