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Events

2025 Illinois Immigration Town Hall

Understanding the rights of all immigrants under a second Trump Presidency, in addition to removals

Topics covered will include:

  • Legal protections under the TRUST and Way Forward Acts

  • How involvement with law enforcement can affect immigration status

  • Finding trustworthy legal representation

  • Overview of presumptive harmful actions the Trump Administration will take that would impact immigrants

  • And more

Speakers:

  • Syrian Community Network

  • Immigration Division for the Law Offices of the Cook County Public Defender

  • Civil Rights Bureau Office for the Illinois Attorney General

  • Asylum & Immigration Law Clinic for DePaul University

  • City of Chicago’s Office of Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Rights

Media are welcome to attend the event. If you have questions before, please reach out to Syrian Community Network's Director of Communications, Lauren West at (312) 532-6692 or lauren@syriancommunitynetwork.org

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If you are a member of the media and would like SCN to comment or for an interview, please reach out to Communications Director, Lauren West.