MEDIA DIGEST: CAIR-Chicago Joins American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) & Allies at Press Conference Following City Hall Resolution in Support of Salah Sarsour
On May 7, 2026, CAIR-Chicago joined a press conference with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)-Chicago & advocates, in collaboration with local community organizations, outside of City Hall following the City Council presentation of Resolution R2026-0024891, calling on U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately release Salah Sarsour and to ensure safeguarding of immigrant rights and prevention of further abuses of power in immigration enforcement.
Speakers included advocates from AMP Chicago, Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Ald. Anthony Quezada, USPCN, PYM Chicago, and CAIR-Chicago.
🚨 Join us at City Hall on May 19 at 12:30 PM in Room 201A as the Committee on Health and Human Relations reconvenes. Stand with Salah and demand justice.
#FreeSalahSarsour
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“This isn't just about Salah Sarsour…. This isn't even [just] about Israel-Palestine. This is about America. This is about our foundational pillar of freedom of expression and the right to protest and dissent. And this is about the greatest threat to American freedoms in the last two centuries posed namely by a singular foreign government thousands of miles away called the State of Israel.”
“And it keeps doing it. Millions of dollars are frozen of federal funding from being given to research universities until they clamp down on the freedom of descent of their American students. American employees all across the country are fired or not hired or otherwise disciplined for speaking out responsibly on social media against genocide because of the pressure of that foreign government.”
- Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations – Chicago, speaking at a press conference denouncing the wrongful imprisonment of prominent Palestinian American community leader Salah Sarsour by ICE / Border Patrol. Chicago, 5/7/2026
By Andy Thayer, Reporter/Videographer for GrayStak Media
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🚨 Join us at City Hall on May 19 at 12:30 PM in Room 201A as the Committee on Health and Human Relations reconvenes. Stand with Salah and demand justice.
#FreeSalahSarsour
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By Andy Thayer, Reporter/Videographer for GrayStak Media
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