Chicago aldermen urge moratorium on ‘cruel deportations’
By FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter Jan 13, 2011 01:52PM

The Chicago City Council on Thursday turned up the heat on President Obama on the volatile issue of immigration reform that Ilinois’ native son promised to — but so far has failed to — deliver.

[b]Aldermen unanimously approved a resolution urging Obama to use his executive powers to call an immediate halt to deportation of undocumented workers that separate them from families that include either a U.S. citizen or a child who would be covered by the so-called “DREAM Act.â€