NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) — A group of parishioners out of Waukegan led a prayer vigil at Naval Station Great Lakes on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Gov. JB Pritzker continued to push back on President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago.<\/p>\n
ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n Taking their Sunday services from Waukegan’s United Giving Hope sanctuary on the road on Sunday morning, a small group of parishioners, including young children, embarked on the 6-mile walk to North Chicago’s Naval Station Great Lakes, where federal agents are expected to set up shop as soon as this week in anticipation of large-scale immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n “These detentions, these operatives, these raids have an impact on human beings,” said United Giving Hope Pastor Julie Contreras.<\/p>\n While sources tell ABC News that operations could start as soon as Friday, on Face the Nation on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refused to go into specifics.<\/p>\n “I won’t disclose the details because they are law enforcement and investigative folks that are on the ground there, and I want to make sure we keep their security our number one priority,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “We’ve already had ongoing operations with ICE in Chicago and throughout Illinois and other states, making sure that we’re upholding our laws. But we do intend to add more resources to those operations.”<\/p>\n While on the same show, Pritzker spoke about a potential National Guard deployment to accompany federal immigration officials.<\/p>\n “If they do, they’ll be in court pretty quickly, because that is illegal. Posse Comitatus does not allow U.S. troops into U.S. cities to do, you know, to fight crime, to be involved in law enforcement. That’s not their job,” Pritzker said. “National Guard troops, any kind of troops on the streets of an American city, don’t belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency; there is not.”<\/p>\n