(7 Sep 2025)
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Chicago – 6 September 2025
1. Congregants arriving at New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church UPSOUND (English): “Good morning.”
2. Various congregants singing and dancing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Marshall Hatch, New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church:
“We’re next up from this focus on the migrants. And I challenged people, I said when you start hearing this administration talking about crime, they’re talking about us. It’s a euphemism, a code word for focus on the African-American community. Not to help us, but I think to make us become a political football in the national dialogue, the use of racism and dog whistles in order to firm up a white base. I really do believe that’s what’s behind it.”
4. Various people sitting in church
5. Stained glass window
6. Rev. Marshall Hatch speaking to congregation UPSOUND (English): “And the narrative is going to be taking our young people off the streets. Not El Salvador, to literally send people what they’re going to call back to Africa. Literally. And if I know something about racists, that is going to be so popular with large swaths of this country that it’s almost like the trump card that’s been waiting.”
7. People walking to church
8. Church exterior with sign
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Marshall Hatch, New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church:
“This is a community starved for resources, and that has a lot to do with the violence in the community. Young people in various states of desperation, families that are fragile, housing and food insecure.”
10. Various woman being baptized
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Marshall Hatch, New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church:
“One of the things that we do is we organize. And so I don’t know if they’re aware, but certainly, you know, we’re gonna resist and we’re not gonna go quietly into some kind of a racist plot to further destabilize, you know, our community and our city. And what we’re challenging as pastors, people to see the bigger picture and to use this coming looming crisis of military occupation for us to pull together and use that energy to build a community that’s more cohesive than before.”
12. Various people during service
STORYLINE:
The Rev. Marshall Hatch urged congregants of a prominent Black church on Chicago’s West Side to carry identification, stay connected to family and protest as the city readied for an expected federal intervention.
“We’re next up from this focus on the migrants. And I challenged people, I said when you start hearing this administration talking about crime, they’re talking about us. It’s a euphemism, a code word for focus on the African-American community,” said Hatch during Sunday worship.
As Chicago braced for an immigration enforcement crackdown and a possible National Guard deployment, churches across the city turned up their response from the pulpit. Some worked to quell fears about detention and deportation while others addressed the looming possibility of more law enforcement on the streets of the nation’s third-largest city.
President Donald Trump has threatened federal intervention in Democratic strongholds, most recently warning apocalyptic force could be used in Chicago to fight crime and step up deportations. He’s repeatedly cited the expected plans over fierce objections from local leaders and many residents who call it unnecessary and unwanted.
Hatch said his community needs investment–not a military occupation.
AP video by Mark Vancleave
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