Chicago anti-Trump immigration rally held in 100-plus degree heat index

Published June 30, 2018 8:13pm ET



Crowds faced down a heat index of as high as 110 degrees in downtown Chicago to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policy, surrounding a stage in Daley Plaza and shouting “Si se puede!” (“Yes, you can!”).

Margo Chavez-Easley, a 39-year-old Chicago resident who emigrated to the U.S. from Guatemala when she was 9, carried a sign that read, “What lengths would you go for your children?”

Chavez-Easley told the Chicago Tribune that as an immigrant and an American, she feels a mix of pride and shame.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was in attendance, saying it was “a place I had to be.”

[Related: Protesters mobilized in D.C., across the nation over Trump immigration policy]