Attendance Way Down at Chicago’s Mexico Independence Day Celebration

Reuters

Elsewhere in the city, the threat of deportations had a chilling effect on a normally festive month in which numerous Mexican Independence Day celebrations are held throughout Chicago.

A parade to mark the holiday in the historically Mexican Pilsen neighborhood turned quiet and nervous.

In a break from traditional celebrations, twirling folklorico dancers decked in glimmering jewelry and billowing, multi-colored dresses distributed “know your rights” pamphlets to sparse crowds.

Horses wore the colors of Mexico’s flag in their tails, while their riders wore neon-orange whistles around their necks in case they needed to alert attendees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Along the sidelines, volunteers also kept watch for ICE.

“This place would normally be packed,” Eddie Chavez, a lifelong Pilsen resident, said while waving a Mexican flag in a lone row of lawn chairs along the parade route. “Now it’s empty, like a ghost town.” More

8 Comments on Attendance Way Down at Chicago’s Mexico Independence Day Celebration

  1. The crowd was sparse because all the ILLEGALS were busy getting steel doors along with multiple rectangular steel tube cross bars installed on all entry points of their residences in an attempt to keep ICE from inviting themselves in.

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  2. Awwww…..
    FOR BEHOLD MY FIELD OF FVCKS, FOR IT IS BARREN AND EMPTY, AND I HAVE NONE TO GIVE.

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