Multiple residents and interns addressed the Cook County Board of Commissioners during the public-comment portion of the meeting to describe encounters with immigration-enforcement activity and to urge county-level action and oversight.

Dave Peterson, who identified himself as a Berwyn resident and community organizer, asked the county to join the Illinois Sanctuary Alliance and to pressure the Illinois Department of Human Rights to allocate resources for protections. "Join the Illinois Sanctuary Alliance," Peterson said, and asked the county to provide "direct assistance to the grassroots people, community defenders" through resident-led groups.

Interns Theo Damita and Olivia Sanchez described fear in their university and neighborhood communities caused by what they said were unmarked vehicles, plain-clothes officers and arrests without warrants. Damita said students were receiving daily reports of "ice or unmarked vehicles being spotted" and that the tactics had made people "feel unsafe." Sanchez, who identified herself as the daughter of a Colombian immigrant, said those tactics have "instilled fear into hundreds of thousands of individuals across the city of Chicago and Cook County" and urged the county to "denounce the unlawful and violent tactics ICE has been using against our residents."

The public-comment period also included George Blakemore, who delivered remarks opposing immigration and urging that jobs, contracts and services go first to Black residents.

The testimony consisted of public comments and requests; the board did not take immediate, recorded action on the specific requests during the meeting.