The federal lawsuit, which names Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, alleges state and local laws are "designed to and in fact interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government's enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution."
That clause, found in Article VI of the historic document, states that federal law supersedes state laws, and county and city ordinances.
Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson have both publicly stated they support federal immigration laws that allow ICE to locate, arrest and deport violent criminals, but that support basically ends there because the liberal politicians oppose the deportation of all other illegal aliens living in Illinois and Chicago unlawfully.
Illinois is home to approximately 530,000 illegal immigrants, according to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies. That puts the state with the fifth largest population.
Tom Homan, Trump's tough-talking border czar, vowed in December the arrest of criminal illegal aliens would start in Chicago. He made that vow while visiting the city.
The DOJ lawsuit says two Illinois laws, called the Way Forward Act and the TRUST Act, impede federal immigration law.
A City of Chicago law, the Welcoming City Ordinance, is also named in the lawsuit. That ordinance, found online by AFN, blatantly impedes cooperation with ICE because 1 of 5 city residents are an immigrant, and the city was built “on the strength of its immigrant communities," the ordinance states.
Project 21 ambassador P. Rae Easley, a Chicago-based conservative activist, tells AFN it is true state law and the city ordinance block local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE.
“They deserve this lawsuit,” she says, “and I hope that Tom Homan definitely goes through with prosecuting them because they need to be made an example out of."
In related action by the Trump administration, the FCC is investigating a California radio station after an anchor relayed the location of ICE agents and their unmarked vehicles on the air.
The station, located in San Francisco, is KCBS 740 AM. The incident occurred Jan. 26 when a morning host on “KCBS Radio Weekend News” described the vehicles, and agent locations, to radio listeners.
