Posted on 10/07/2025 8:00:40 PM PDT by Libloather
Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson suggested on Tuesday that the Chicago Police should arrest ICE agents and other federal officers who he claims are breaking his new executive order aimed at hampering immigration enforcement.
On Monday, Johnson signed a dubious executive order creating “ICE-Free Zones” to ban federal agents from using city-owned properties as staging areas for immigration enforcement.
Johnson’s proclamation comes as President Donald Trump suggested that the anti-ICE actions by Chicago’s leaders are akin to an insurrection against the federal government.
Now, the mayor is claiming that violations of his orders are a “crime” and those who break those rules “should be charged.”
“It’s a crime. Here’s the thing, anyone who commits a crime should be charged,” Johnson said on Tuesday, according to the Chicago Tribune. “I mean, isn’t that the basic rule of what they ostensibly refer to as ‘law and order?'”
Despite Johnson’s bellicosity, Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling was less willing to support arresting federal officers and noted that he can’t really expect CPD officers to arrest federal law enforcement “because someone deems what they are doing is illegal.”
Snelling had also told the press that the CPD has no duty to interfere in ICE activities, and said, “We do not interfere with the duties and responsibilities of federal agents. We don’t have to agree with it. It doesn’t matter.”
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s office also demurred from taking a stance on the mayor’s threats.
Despite the lack of direct support for his confrontational proclamations, Johnson insisted that he intends to prosecute federal officers.
“We’re going to see people in court,” Johnson exclaimed. “As far as other authority that allows for us to be able to enforce this ordinance, we’re exploring.”
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Then he’d have to change his name to Les.
“... included upholding the Constitution of the United States,”
And there it is: “The Supremacy Clause, found in Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made in accordance with it, and treaties are the “supreme Law of the Land” and must be followed by judges in every state, even if they conflict with state constitutions or laws.”
Brandon loves ‘law and order’. Just check HeyJack for confirmation.
Gone off the wall, completely. Watch for even more entertaining absurdities.
No he’s a piece of s::t
Him AND Pritzger. Pritzger and the democrats are destroying this state (Illinois). “Land of Lincoln”? HA! Lincoln would spit in his fat face if he were alive today.
I fear you are right. California, Minnesota, Illinois, New York….
It’s Pritzger sized.
Will the dishonorable mayor be leading the arrests or aping for the microphones?
They get my blood pressure going, too. Whenever they show up in a news report I change the channel. I refuse to pay for electricity that shows them grandstanding. Unless they’re in chains.
Well, if that were actually happening in your city, mayor, ICE wouldn't needed, amiright?
Threatening federal officers is a crime. Lock this jive turkey up.
They should ARREST you, you f__k**g thug!!
Much to do about nothing. The Mayor pretended to do something
However, ICE agents will not be arresting him for insurrection on city property. The FBI will arrest the mayor for insurrection
We are at the brink of total collapse in this country into a nation of warlords.
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Oh, we are there already.
All these rogue district court judges ignoring black letter law, the SCOTUS and the Chief Magistrate aka the US President .
There are your defacto Warlords.
I believe a false arrest attempt (political) by CPD is grounds for a shoot-out and ICE would be the good guys here.
His popularity is at 26% - and falling...he’s as popular as a turd floating in the bathwater...
I keep saying at some point, somewhere local LEO and the Feds are going to exchange gunfire. It will not end well.
I have used different terminology to describe the phenomena.
I don’t think there are actually many individuals with enough power to be termed a war lord. They certainly lack the capability to create armed war.
I believe that America is plagued with a coalition of City States. America today is ancient Greece. Acting as a coalition that is the Democrat Party, the City States control their territories that are in fact States of the Union.
Being the location of the most population they nearly control the Union. They have been described as America’s most dangerous enemies. The City States are in fact America’s worst enemies.
The City States have ceased to actually be American
They certainly lack the capability to create armed war.
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On the contrary
That is EXACTLY what they are directing, that IS their goal. That IS going to be the direct outcome, it ALREADY has.
10 car ambush plus shoot out of ICE ring a bell ?
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America is plagued with a coalition of City States.
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Those aren’t city states
They are SANCTUARY CITIES
IN OPEN REBELLION TO THE RULE OF LAW.L AND THE NATION.
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