Good News: Cameroonian Mother Released...More Action Needed!

Thanks to coordinated action by immigrant leaders, Rose Tchakounte, a 54-year-old asylum seeker and mother from Cameroon, was released this afternoon on an “order of supervision”. This is good news but Rose could still face deportation even though she entered the U.S. legally, was never convicted of a crime, has family in the U.S., and has lived here 11 years.

Please help reverse this injustice now!

Please contact:

Ricardo Wong, Midwest ICE Director 

(312.347.2400)

and

Karen Lundgren, Midwest ICE Prosecutor 

(312.524.8224)

Ask them to exercise prosecutorial discretion, close the case, and stop the deportation of Rose Tchakounte.

This tragedy is a result of our broken federal immigration system and the rogue actions of a Chicago Police Department that violated the 2006 Chicago sanctuary city ordinance.

In addition to helping Rose, we must also make sure that Chicago Police Department never again violates our Sanctuary City status. If you are in the city of Chicago, we ask you to also please call:

Matthew Hynes at the Mayor’s Office of Inter-Governmental Affairs

(312.745.6115)

Ask him to schedule a meeting between ICIRR and Police Superintendent McCarthy in order to ensure that the sanctuary ordinance is being implemented to the full extent of the law.

Let’s work together to make Chicago a global city in which immigrant communities do not fear the Chicago Police Department!