The second busiest retail corridor in Chicago is typically a bustling area dotted with taquerias and Mexican grocery stores in the southwestern part of the city. By Monday afternoon it had turned into a ghost town.

A bustling shopping district in Chicago known as the “Mexico of the Midwest” has seen foot traffic plummet by 50% — as residents say they fear the immigration raids promised by President Trump. The sidewalks were empty and some businesses were closed along a two-mile stretch of shops and restaurants on 26th Street in Chicago’s Little Village — the Windy City’s second busiest retail corridor — as Trump was sworn into office Monday.

Chicago sat frozen in more ways than one on Tuesday, as its migrant community huddled in fear waiting for immigration raids that had yet to materialize by lunchtime, when temperatures in the Windy City dipped below zero.

The Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity Chicago has issued a call to action against what it describes as an impending wave of ICE raids and deportations in Chicago.