The mainstream media churns forth a stream of sob stories about the Trump administration’s immigration law enforcement efforts.
The goal is to erode support for detaining and deporting illegal aliens.
The latest such tale bemoans the very real possibility that — get your box of Kleenex ready — the threat of immigration enforcement is endangering the celebration of Mexican Independence Day… in Chicago.
What an outrage!
Reuters even entitled its article on the topic, “In Chicago, ICE fears turn Mexican parade into a ghost town.”
That sounds horrible!
Let’s see how they describe this tragic situation (keep your tissues handy!)
“A normally raucous, colorful parade to mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago turned quiet and nervous on Saturday [September 6] as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he intended to ramp up deportations in the nation’s third-largest city,” Reuters reports.
How can we live knowing that a Mexican parade in Chicago is “quiet and nervous” rather than “raucous” and “colorful”? Pass the Kleenex!
“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 in the city’s historically Mexican Pilsen neighborhood. 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 of Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents. Along the sidelines, volunteers also kept watch for ICE.”
Why would they be nervous about ICE unless they or people they know are here illegally?
“‘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.’”
A few photos from the Pilsen Mexican Independence Day Parade Saturday in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/xvVgiW9BPz
— armando l sanchez (@mandophotos) September 6, 2025
But still this celebration is being praised.
“‘We’re scared, but we’re here,’ said Isabel Garcia, a dancer in Saturday’s parade wearing a marigold-yellow dress and multi-colored ribbons and flowers in her hair. ‘We’re Mexican. We have to celebrate, and they’re not going to stop us.’”
However, other local events weren’t held.
“Some Mexican festivals in the Chicago area were postponed or canceled amid fears of immigration raids.”
These excerpts are enough for you to see what’s going on. There are articles from other outlets on the same topic.
The goal of these sob stories is to make Americans feel guilty for supporting enforcement of our immigration law.
It is true that Trump’s immigration policies scare some people. They scare illegal aliens, family members of illegal aliens, friends of illegal aliens, businessmen and businesswomen who profit off illegal aliens, and, of course, activists and politicians who benefit from illegal aliens.
That doesn’t mean that illegal immigration is good for America. It isn’t.
For decades our government allowed and tolerated illegal immigration. Now it doesn’t, and that’s going to be tough for people who are part of it.
But in the interests of helping people who are discouraged at the state of Mexican celebrations in Chicago, I have an excellent solution.
Are you sad that fewer people attend such celebrations, or that they are “quiet” and not “raucous”?
Well, good news! I know of a place where you can openly celebrate Mexican Independence Day, with all the attendant customs, alongside many other Mexican people. This is a place where there is almost no danger of Mexican Independence Day celebrations being cancelled or diminished.
It’s a place called Mexico.
Mexico is a whole country where you can celebrate Mexican Independence Day in September, Day of the Dead in November, Mexican Revolution Day in November, and Mexican-style Navidad (Christmas) in December.
In Mexico, you can celebrate being Mexican all 365 days a year! (And 366 in leap years!)
Why hang around in Chicago when Mexican paradise awaits?
You can find more of Allan Wall’s work at his website and Mexico News Report.
