The Trump Administration is beginning to implement its plan to crack down on sanctuary cities, and the first two targets have been revealed.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the DOJ to stop all federal funding for sanctuary cities. Moreover, Bondi has also ordered the prosecution of any jurisdiction impeding immigration enforcement. This opens the door for the feds to arrest local and state officials for defying immigration laws and harboring illegal migrants.
These places have broken federal law for years without repercussions from the Republican and Democratic administrations. This has severely hampered immigration officials’ ability to ensure public safety while criminal aliens terrorize ordinary Americans.
Now, accountability has officially arrived. Justice Department officials told the New York Post today that the Trump administration has officially sued the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago over their sanctuary laws.
The officials point out that these laws coddling illegals hamper Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ability to arrest and deport these migrants. These are laos the first of several lawsuits to come against sanctuary places.
“We’ve identified Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County as all having laws and ordinances on the books that impede federal immigration enforcement, in particular the Chicago Welcoming ordinance, the Illinois Trust Act,” a DOJ official told the Post.
Here’s more from the Post regarding the lawsuits:
According to the suit, the local laws contradict federal laws that “prohibit state and local governments from refusing to share information,” as well as “restrict local governments from sharing immigration information with federal law enforcement officials,” which it claims prevents ICE and the Department of Homeland Security from identifying “individuals who may be subject to removal.”
The suit also notes that the named jurisdictions “refuse to cooperate with detainers,” adding, “so instead of handing over people who are in prison or in jail to federal immigration authorities, they will just let folks go.”
The outlet notes that both the state of Illinois and its largest city have laws barring cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The far-left state legislature passed the Illinois Trust Act in 2017, which reads, “State law does not currently grant State or local law enforcement the authority to enforce federal civil immigration laws.”
Then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel passed a Welcoming City ordinance in 2012, which states, “No agency or agent shall arrest, detain or continue to detain a person solely on the belief that the person is not present legally in the United States.”
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have vowed not to cooperate at all with ICE.
“They (trump Administration) want people to step back and let them do whatever they want to do,” Pritzker told CNN last month. “What’s quite disturbing, is they’re going after people who are law-abiding, who are holding down jobs, who have families here, who may have been here for a decade or two decades, and they’re often our neighbors and our friends.”
Now, he and Johnson will learn the hard way that Trump means business. And they will not be the last.
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