Chicago mayor vows to guard residents after Trump’s border czar singles out Windy City for mass deportations | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” has steered the president-elect’s plans for mass deportations will start in Chicago, a part of a plan that may deploy legislation enforcement officers into communities throughout the nation for broad sweeps focusing on folks residing within the nation with out authorized permission.

The Windy City’s mayor is vowing to guard his metropolis’s residents from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement brokers who might push into faculties and workplaces, butting in opposition to so-called “sanctuary” insurance policies barring federal forces from utilizing native police for deportation enforcement.

“What the Trump administration has called for is for local police departments around the country to behave as ICE agents. In sanctuary cities, that is not permissible,” Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson advised CNN.

“If there is someone here in this country that commits a violent crime and they are undocumented, they are in the hands of the law,” he added. “That is clear.”

Immigrants who’ve dedicated crimes already can be recognized by police as soon as they’re arrested and in custody, “then the law, of course, is fully prepared to prosecute,” he mentioned.

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“Look, no one is going to harbor or protect criminals, whether you have come here as an immigrant or undocumented or otherwise,” Johnson continued. “Any administration that would look to disrupt the sensibility of public accommodations, consider [it] … a threat to our democracy.”

This week, Homan advised a bunch of Illinois Republicans that he needs Democratic officers to “get the hell out of the way” of Trump’s plans.

Trump’s pledge to arrest, detain and deport folks residing within the nation with out authorized permission as a part of his “day one” agenda is “going to start right here in Chicago,” Homan mentioned.

“If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside,” he added. “But if he impedes us — if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien — I will prosecute him.”

Trump’s allies anticipate to increase his pledge to focus on probably thousands and thousands of individuals past the scope of undocumented immigrants who’re accused of committing crimes.

Trump and Homan have additionally mentioned that US citizen youngsters of non-citizen mother and father are anticipated to be deported together with their households.

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Chicago has welcomed greater than 50,000 individuals who arrived within the nation from the US-Mexico border since 2022, largely from Republican-driven measures to ship folks in search of asylum from their states into Democratic-led cities.

Immigrants’ advocacy teams are warning that the Trump’s administration’s agenda might violently disrupt susceptible immigrant communities and the residents and authorized residents inside them.

“We are talking about disrupting households. We’re talking about disrupting communities. We’re talking about disrupting local economies,” mentioned Fred Tsao with Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights advised Chicago ABC affiliate WLS.

“We have the right to be safe in our homes, and to require a warrant if law enforcement wants to come in,” he added.

“It’s no secret that Illinois will face countless, baseless attacks over the next four years from the Trump Administration,” a spokesperson for Illinois Governor JB Pritzker advised The Independent this week.

“Rather than responding to every ridiculous boast from Trump lackeys, Governor Pritzker is focused on what he was focused on during the first Trump term: leading our state with competence instead of chaos,” the assertion added.

Homan additionally met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams this week, and the mayor advised reporters that he shares “the same desire” to “go after those who have committed repeated violent acts among innocent New Yorkers and among migrants and asylum seekers.”

But he mentioned he’s exploring the best way to “unravel” the town’s sanctuary insurance policies “and get clarity on what we can do and can’t do.

“We need to examine them and see what my authority is to use executive orders to make New York City safe,” he added.