CHICAGO (WLS) — A community meeting was held Saturday in response to recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Chicago and other cities. Some families in Little Village said they are living in fear.

There is a now an effort to provide help to those who are deported and possibly being sent to a country they’ve never been to before.

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As the Trump administration promised to intensify ICE raids in Chicago and elsewhere, a local community group is looking to lawmakers in Mexico to help. They came together in hopes of taking their community back as immigration raids continue to spread fear.

“Especially with the raids where they are kidnapping our people,” one person said at the Southwest Side community meeting.

The Little Village Community Council, in partnership with other groups, held a community meeting Saturday in response to ICE raids. They invited two senators from Mexico to be apart of the conversation of how to protect and support Mexican nationals who have been targeted.

“We live with a lot of fear, the fear of being deported,” a speaker said.

The organization says ICE agents detain people they’ve profiled without due process, often subjecting them to inhumane conditions inside detention centers.

“This is something that has been aggressively done by this administration to show those that are being detained, ‘This is how we’re gonna treat you if you come United States and you are detained by ICE, we’re gonna take every right that you have, almost steal your soul,'” Little Village Community Council president Baltazar Enriquez said.

Those at the community meeting said while they plan on “further” pushing back on the Trump administration’s immigration policies, they are asking Mexico’s government to help support those who are deported, often landing in a country where they don’t speak the language or know anyone.

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“We wanna make sure they have a support they need to come back to Mexico and be able to work and place their children in schools and all the benefits of our country provides them to have a new beginning,” said Karina Ruiz, a senator from Mexico.

Mexico has started a program called, in English, “Mexico Hugs You.”

The program is something a local man, Arturo Daza hopes will help save his 39-year-old son who has been deported. The concerned father says his son was detained after he was stopped by police, who discovered a man he was giving a ride to had a gun.

This comes as the Trump administration authorized National Guard troops to help support ICE in 20 states with deportation operations, and as the president says Chicago and other city’s with Democrat mayors are next.

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Despite Saturdays community meeting, communities like the one on the Southwest Side are bracing for more immigration raids as they vow to fight for their rights.