Overview

• The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois administered a naturalization ceremony at Wrigley Field, where Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin joined judges in swearing in 977 immigrants from 109 countries.
• President Trump’s same-day social media announcement to exclude undocumented immigrants from census counts intensified national debate on representation.
• Federal officials recently reached an agreement to expand detention capacity at Indiana’s Miami Correctional Facility, tripling beds available to the Chicago region.
• Participants included Jairo Muñoz of Mexico, who has lived in the U.S. for half his life, and refugee case manager Winnie Akello, who called citizenship a new beginning for her family.
• Three members of the Patel family—father Jayesh Patel and his daughters Mahek and Sarah—were sworn in together at the ballpark.