Dozens of men, women and children huddled around a podium inside a Dominican University facility Saturday morning in Pilsen brandishing signs that read “Remain Silent” and “Know Your Rights” and “Do NOT open the door.” Promptly at 10 a.m., Erendira Rendon, the vice president of immigrant justice at a statewide “social impact organization” called the Resurrection Project, said right then was not a moment to panic. “This is a moment to be prepared and to be able to get the resources that you need,” Rendon said. The hastily organized news conference was in response to a Wall Street Journal report late Friday that the incoming Donald Trump administration was planning a “large-scale immigration raid” in Chicago, expected to begin the day after Trump’s planned inauguration Monday and last all week. The Journal reported it would be the opening act of Trump’s “promised mass deportation campaign.” According to the newspaper, between 100 and 200 officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would execute the operation. Other news outlets later reported the plan. Rendon said the news conference was organized because of the Journal’s reporting but added that the community has been expecting something like this to happen. “It’s no secret that the new administration wants to target Chicago,” U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García later added. “They want to intimidate a city that would stand up for justice and protection for everyone.” García, D-Ill., said it was clear that Chicago would be “the top target” when Tom Homan, Trump’s pick to lead immigration enforcement, “came here with his vicious rhetoric.” Homan told Chicago supporters last month at a holiday party that mass deportations would “start right here in Chicago, Illinois.” Most of all, Rendon said she wanted to disseminate the message that people can prepare for an ICE raid by knowing their rights. “You have the right to remain silent,” she said. “You have the right to not open the door. You have the right to ask to speak to an attorney.” The U.S. Constitution applies to undocumented immigrants “without question,” said Yale Law School professor Cristina Rodriguez, according to a 2018 PBS News article. Many parts of the Constitution use the term “people” or “person” rather than “citizen,” according to the article, and Rodriguez said those laws apply to all people standing within the U.S. borders, regardless of citizenship status.   Before Trump’s inauguration, members of the Chicago community should be “preparing your documents,” Rendon also said. People can go to the Resurrection Project’s website — trpij.org — or call 855-435-7693 if they have an encounter with ICE. But Rendon encouraged community members to be proactive and go to the website as soon as possible, in case they encounter an emergency situation in the coming days. The website has resources in both English and Spanish that people may download and print out, including a document that describes how to create an “emergency family plan,” a “Know your rights” card and a “Know your rights” sign that can be hung on a door or wall. The “Know your rights” sign includes a sample of a judicial warrant allowing ICE to enter one’s home and a sample administrative warrant that does not permit ICE to enter one’s home. Chicagoans may carry around a “Know your rights” card and present it to authorities. The card tells authorities they were presented with it because its holder wishes to remain silent and wishes not to sign documents, among other things. After saying it wasn’t a time to panic, Rendon got the bilingual news conference underway by telling her personal story. Rendon, a Mexican-born undocumented immigrant with DACA protection, said she came to the U.S. when she was 4 years old to be reunited with her father, who came when she was a baby. Rendon said she and her family have been able to thrive and become homeowners. Rendon was able to attend college and have a career, she said. “We are able to have as much of a thriving and successful life as possible because we live in a city and because we live in a state that allows us to do that,” Rendon said. “And so we will continue to be a city and a state that protects immigrants as much as possible.” García said the Chicago community has been the subject of attacks and immigration raids going back to the 1960s and that the current threats are nothing new. In response to previous attacks and raids, the community united and passed laws and ordinances to protect its members, he said. “We continue to assert that immigrants are good for this community,” García said. “They’re good for Chicago, for Illinois and the United States of America. We continue to reject the assertion by Donald Trump and other enablers that somehow we are more prone to criminality.” The Associated Press reported Saturday that an official said federal immigration officers will target more than 300 people with histories of egregious, violent crimes after Trump takes office. The operation will be concentrated in the Chicago area, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because plans have not been made public. Arrests are expected all week. Earlier in the week, the City Council voted to table a controversial amendment to the city’s Sanctuary City ordinance that would have allowed Chicago police to work with federal agencies on deportation cases with individuals accused or convicted of gang activity, drug-related crimes, sex trafficking or sex crimes with minors. “What anti-immigrant rhetoric and people all over this country want to do in this moment is to divide us,” said U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., who also spoke at the conference. “And so Chicago — to all of us in Chicago — let’s choose love over hate. Let’s choose unity over division.” Associated Press contributed.