Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city’s police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.
Chicago’s mayor has limited how much his city’s police department can cooperate with federal immigration agents, in response to threats from the Trump administration to «ramp up» immigration enforcement operations in the city.
On Saturday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city’s police department from collaborating with federal officers conducting civil immigration enforcement operations, and with U.S. military personnel on police patrols.
Johnson, a Democrat, said Trump was acting outside «the bounds of the Constitution» by threatening to send more federal law enforcement officers or even the National Guard to Chicago against the wishes of state and local leaders.
«We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart», Johnson said. «We do not want grandmothers thrown into the back of unmarked vans. We don’t want to see homeless Chicagoans harassed or disappeared by federal agents.»
President Trump, in a post on his social media site Truth Social on Saturday, criticized Illinois’ Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and suggested federal forces could be dispatched to the Midwest city to fight crime.
«Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME», Trump wrote.
