By Jennifer Flores, Reyna Valencia, and Bella Bercan
The Dominican Star has launched an ICE Tracker in order to keep the community aware of ICE activity in the surrounding areas.
During the Illinois College Press Association (ICPA) conference, the Dominican Star staff had the opportunity to attend several informational sessions about journalism given by other Illinois colleges.
One of the sessions included information on an ICE Tracking site that had been developed by the Editor-in-Chief, Lilli Malone, and Managing Editor, Julia Pentasuglio, for The Loyola Phoenix. They focused on tracking ICE activity in the Rogers Park and Edgewater area.
We became inspired by their initiative and decided to create our own addition to service the Dominican University community. After having a meeting with Malone and Pentasuglio, we gathered more information to make this launch possible.
These developments have led to us creating our own map with pinned locations where there has been confirmed ICE activity. The ICE Tracker will include areas that are around Dominican and that have a large commuter student population.
The specific neighborhoods we will cover are River Forest, Forest Park, Elmwood Park, River Grove, Maywood, Melrose Park, Oak Park, Dunning, Broadview, Stone Park, Belmont Cragin, Franklin Park, Northlake, Westchester, and Cicero.
If you see any ICE activity that occurs in any of these areas, you can submit a report to our social media and email. Each submission should include photos or videos (from a safe distance), location, time, number of agents, and vehicle license plates if possible.
We will gather these reports and verify the information before pinning the locations on the map. Besides including submitted reports, we have also joined community Facebook groups that are active in providing public information on ICE sightings. We will regularly scan through posts and verify information that can also be added to the map.
As of now, there have been some pins added to the map that reflect ICE activity that has occurred over the last couple of days. To view the map, visit the Dominican Star website.
It is important to note that the sightings may not be reflected immediately, but we will put effort into updating information as promptly as possible. If attempting to gather photo and video evidence in the presence of ICE, we encourage Dominican Students and other community members to approach the situation cautiously.
Report to:
Instagram: Dominican Star
Facebook: Dominican Star Email: domstarnews@gmail.com
“Dominican Helps Criminals Evade the Law”
Fixed the title for you.
Our president is a criminal. Are you happy hes evading the law too? Just like how he evaded the draft when he was draft eligible?
Prove it.
Democrats are the criminals who killed Katie Abraham, Sheridan Gorman, Stephanie Minter, Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Kayla Hamilton.
Everybody who could evaded the draft
Dominican is promoting anti-American propaganda. Amazing how uninformed students are about the past 47 years of Iranian dictatorship that hates women and recently killed 30,000 Iranian protesters who represent the majority of Iranian citizens and students who look forward to regime change so they can have a normal and productive life life.
Funny how the Dominican Star advocates for violent illegal aliens after the murder of Sheridan Gorman.
Thank you DU for protecting our community!
I guess your community is the perpetrator and not the victim.
A woman gets killed by a foreign gang-banger and y’all protect the drug cartels. This is why we’ll have mass deportations of all.
Your university has better things to spend the money on than this. Try to actually improve and attract students so you don’t need to close like all the other C tier colleges
Maybe if Dominican insists on using tuition dollars to cater to illegal immigrants, then they can be the ones to support the university. Vote with your dollars. Dominican’s not the only college in the area.
Fun fact: the Mexican government imprisons people for two years and heavily fines them for illegally entering Mexico, not to mention they have no problem deporting illegal immigrants.