The second busiest retail corridor in Chicago is typically a bustling area dotted with taquerias and Mexican grocery stores in the southwestern part of the city. By Monday afternoon it had turned into a ghost town.

Leaders across Chicago are denouncing threats of immigration raids by the new Trump administration as the immigrant community anxiously watches and waits. Cardinal Blase Cupich calls the reports “profoundly disturbing.

Business leaders and employers across the United States, including in Chicago, are raising alarms over immigration raids as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to implement his mass deportation policy.

Illinois is already fighting back against one of President Trump’s actions to crack down on immigration. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.