Donald Trump’s administration has launched an operation against irregular immigration, supported by officials of the Department of Justice, who will join immigration agents to deal with a “national emergency”, in the words of the attached attorney general In functions, Emil Bove, which has moved to the city to supervise the operation.
Chicago is one of the big cities governed by the Democrats who have reached tens of thousands of migrants since the spring of 2022, sent by the Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to press President Joe Biden. The new republican administration has promised to redouble efforts to execute its announced mass deportation plans, mobilizing various agencies dependent on the Department of Justice, such as the FBI, the DEA and the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives agency (DEA and explosives (DEA and explosives ( ATF, in its English acronym) to secondary and reinforce the performance of immigration and customs agents (ICE), both in Chicago and other places. Unlike other raids in previous days, such as that made in Newark (New Jersey), which sounded the alarm in local governments, the Chicago operation has been previously announced.
The application of immigration laws is the attribution of the Department of National Security, which supervises agencies such as ICE. But the Republican Administration is dedicating more personnel in the Department of Justice to those efforts as it adopts more aggressive measures, as demonstrated by the executive orders signed by Trump on their first day of mandate.
Bove has indicated in a statement that the deployment “in unison” of the officials of the Departments of Justice and National Security aims to “deal with a national emergency derived from four years of failed immigration policy.” The Department of Justice, he added, is also working “to ensure the border, stop this invasion and make the United States a safe country.” Officials have been granted “additional powers” to execute orders.
Immigration and Customs has confirmed the deployment in a statement, in which he affirms that federal agencies have initiated “reinforced specific operations” in Chicago “to enforce the US immigration law and preserve public security and national security, moving away to potentially dangerous criminal foreigners of our communities. ” The first phase of deportation will theory in theory without papers with criminal history and those on which previous expulsion orders weighing.
On the eve, immigrants defenders filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration and ICE for considering that planned deportation raids are retaliation and violate the first constitutional amendment. The plaintiffs claim that the raids are directed specifically against the city for their status as a sanctuary or refuge for foreigners and involve a violation of their right to freedom of expression, collected in the first amendment, and the protections of the fourth amendment against records and confiscations without justification.
Vance defends the raids in schools
The demand was filed a few hours before the start of the registration and identification operation of foreigners, when rumors about the imminence of the lightning operation of immigration agents in the city, which already on Christmas Eve closed a macroalbergue with capacity with capacity with capacity with capacity For almost 2,000 people.
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker (Democrat), has declared this Sunday in the CNN that his state will cooperate with the federal authorities in the deportation of undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes or with pending deportation orders. However, he stressed that state forces would not participate in selective raids or make identifications of people who could lack papers. According to Pritzker, there is no legal basis for the threat that Bove slid last week, about a possible investigation and legal persecution of officials of the jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate in the offensive against immigration.
On Friday, ICE agents saw their attempt to access at least one school in the city, by officials of the Chicago Public School Network. Vice President JD Vance has defended this Sunday the records in schools and churches, theoretically inviolable, in statements to the CNN chain. “Support to be fulfilled by the law against violent criminals, whether they are illegal immigrants or any other person,” said Vance, who, “as a practical Catholic,” lamented a criticism of the US Episcopal Conference against deportation plans. The bishops, he stressed, “have not been a good partner in the application of the Immigration Law with common sense” and, as a devout Catholic, said his hope that “they do better.”
