DoJ to File Lawsuit Over Illinois & Chicago Sanctuary Policies

[Webster]

(The Guardian) The Trump administration sued the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago in federal court Thursday, accusing both of impeding the administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

On Wednesday, US attorney general Pam Bondi, issued a memo announcing her plan to withhold federal funding from “sanctuary cities” that refrain from aiding the administration in its deportation efforts.

The lawsuit invokes Trump’s day one executive order to declare an emergency at the southern border of the US and claimed the jurisdictions had launched an “intentional effort to obstruct the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law.”

Illinois and Chicago policies limit local law enforcement officers’ ability to aid federal immigration enforcement efforts.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.473062/gov.uscourts.ilnd.473062.1.0.pdf

*looks around* @DrLeftover, as our resident Illini, thoughts on the above?

 

[MrDawn]

(The Guardian) The Trump administration sued the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago in federal court Thursday, accusing both of impeding the administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

On Wednesday, US attorney general Pam Bondi, issued a memo announcing her plan to withhold federal funding from “sanctuary cities” that refrain from aiding the administration in its deportation efforts.

The lawsuit invokes Trump’s day one executive order to declare an emergency at the southern border of the US and claimed the jurisdictions had launched an “intentional effort to obstruct the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law.”

Illinois and Chicago policies limit local law enforcement officers’ ability to aid federal immigration enforcement efforts.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.473062/gov.uscourts.ilnd.473062.1.0.pdf

Apparently, this has been going on for awhile.

City officials will continue to shield all immigrants in Chicago from federal agents, regardless of whether they are citizens, permanent residents or asylum seekers, despite the election of President-elect Donald Trump, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday.

In his first remarks on the outcome of the presidential race, Johnson said Chicago will not allow Chicago Police officers to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deport Chicagoans. That assistance is now prohibited by city ordinance.

“We will not bend or break,” Johnson said. “Our values will remain strong and firm. We will face likely hurdles in our work over the next four years but we will not be stopped and we will not go back.”

One of Trump’s first acts as president-elect was to name former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan as his “border czar.” Homan will be charged with leading what the official platform of the Republican Party calls the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

Trump said he will instruct federal agents to conduct deportation operations at schools, churches and playgrounds and to deport all undocumented immigrants, not just those accused of criminal acts.

Homan told Fox News he would recommend that federal funds be stripped from cities who do not assist federal immigration agents. During his first term in office, Chicago fought a similar attempt all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won.

Chicago Will Remain a Sanctuary City, Despite Donald Trump’s Threats, Mayor Brandon Johnson Says

“We will not bend or break,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “Our values will remain strong and firm. We will face likely hurdles in our work over the next four years but we will not be stopped and we will not go back.”

news.wttw.com

 

[DrLeftover]

My county is one of those seriously debating seceding from Illinois and joining Indiana.

I'm already downloading fishing maps of Indiana and looking at stuff like this:

Recreational Gold Prospecting

Information about gold panning in Indiana.

www.in.gov