Chicago, January 27 (RHC)-- The Trump administration announced nearly 1,000 people were arrested on Sunday as federal agencies carried out immigration raids in Chicago and other cities. 

In Chicago, agents with ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were assisted by the FBI; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals Service. 

The Washington Post reports the Trump administration wants every ICE field office to make at least 75 immigration arrests per day as part of a new quota system.

Local communities are pushing back.  On Friday, school officials in Chicago refused to allow agents into an elementary school.  School officials at first thought the agents were from ICE, but they were actually from the U.S. Secret Service.

[ SOURCE:  DEMOCRACY NOW ]