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Chicago cardinal, mayor speak out on immigration


CHICAGO (AP) – Dozens of Chicago lawyers have offered to help travelers detained in the wake of President Donald Trump’s orders banning travel to the U.S. by citizens from seven Muslim majority nations. The Chicago Tribune reports that some 150 attorneys headed out to O’Hare International Airport in response to requests for help that first went out Saturday. They packed into a food court in the airport’s international arrivals terminal.

CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich is calling President Donald Trump’s immigration order “a dark moment in U.S. history.” Cupich said Sunday that the president’s sweeping executive order that includes temporarily barring the citizens of seven majority Muslim nations from entering the United States “is contrary to both Catholic and American values.” He also says it gives “aid and comfort to those who would destroy our way of life.”

CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is calling on city residents to show immigrants that they are welcome through actions such as hosting a meal or offering kind words. Emanuel says in a statement Sunday that his family plans to host young immigrants attending Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges of Chicago for “a meal, a conversation and a recognition and celebration of all that unites us, rather than what divides us.”

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