One of Chicago’s largest Cinco de Mayo events is being canceled. Organizers blame President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Last year’s parade was shut down after gunfire erupted on the parade route.
The parade has been canceled prior to 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and local political disagreements.
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Officials in Chicago are canceling this year’s Cinco de Mayo parade. Organizers blame President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and their effect on the Hispanic community.
Parade organizers told local media outlets on Thursday evening that federal immigration policies targeting Mexicans have left them with “nothing to celebrate.”
“Our community is very frightened because of the raids and the threat that ICE has imposed on the families that work tirelessly to provide a better future for their kids,” Hector Escobar, the president of the Cermak Road Chamber of Commerce and Casa Puebla, said in the statement.
Escobar said the community has faced bullying and prosecution.
“We hope that in the near future things get situated and we can continue with the (5 de Mayo) Celebration for many more years to come,” he said via FOX 32 Chicago.
The southwest side of Chicago has a large Hispanic population. The Little Village neighborhood, where the parade was expected to step off, is known as the “Mexico of the Midwest.”
Past cancellations
The parade was rerouted and later canceled in 2024 after gunfire broke out in what the Chicago Police Department called gang violence along the planned path.
Organizers also canceled the festivities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that a conflict between organizers and a local city alderman led to another cancellation.
Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s victory over Napoleon’s French army in the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
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