I seriously doubt they can prevent ICE from doing this.
Anarcho-tyranny writ large.
Meaningless. Watch the feds studiously ignore this law.
CC
Treat Illinois law enforcement as illegitimate.
They interfere with you or lay their hands on you, treat them like kidnappers.
The Feds need to turn these freeloader illegal aliens over dto the states and not one penny of Federal taxpayer dollars be given to them. The states love the thieving ahos that much, they should be responsible for them. I know the Illinois taxpayers won’t mind taking care of these foreign ahos. The sanctuary ahos should be totally responsible for the scumbags.
Article VI...?
Means nothing, feds have priority over the states. I look forward to ICE going into courthouses in Illinois to arrest criminals.
When in conflict the supremacy clause in the constitution prevails over state law. Otherwise, state law prevails if not in conflict of Federal Law. The states do not write Federal Law nor did they with one exception. At the constitutional convention all states had input in the writing of The Constitution. However, once adopted it became Federal Law for all the states even if your state was opposed to it at the Constitutional Convention.
RE: “near courthouses.”
How near?
All the places I looked said “no specific distance” is in the legislation.
They can pass these laws but they are unconstitutional.
No local law can prevent the federal law enforcement from performing their duty.
Just wasting money and time for photo ops
U.S. citizens cannot opt out.
Data is held for 15 years.
The entire political class knows about this - and NO ONE IN EITHER PARTY - is standing up to challenge this egregious attack on American liberty.
Shame on them.
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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says (October 31, 2025)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person’s identity and their immigration status, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document also says any face photos taken by the app, called Mobile Fortify, will be stored for 15 years, including those of U.S. citizens.
The document provides new details about the technology behind Mobile Fortify, how the data it collects is processed and stored, and DHS’s rationale for using it. On Wednesday 404 Media reported that both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are scanning peoples’ faces in the streets to verify citizenship.
“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection..”
“Although the intended purpose of the Mobile Fortify Application is to identify aliens who are removable from the United States, users may use Mobile Fortify to collect information in identifiable form about individuals regardless of citizenship or immigration status. It is conceivable that a photo taken by an agent using the Mobile Fortify mobile application could be that of someone other than an alien, including U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents,” the document continues. “ICE agents do not know an individual’s citizenship at the time of initial encounter and will use the Mobile Fortify mobile application to determine or verify the individual's identity, and confirm that they are a match to the Fortify the Border Hotlist.” If a subject’s photo doesn’t match one of those on the hotlist, no additional information will be returned, according to the document.
Even if the photo does not provide a match, “CBP saves the new photographs and fingerprints, taken using Mobile Fortify [...] and retained for 15 years,” the document says. “ICE will take no action on individuals who are not a match to the hotlist, unless operational circumstances indicate other violations of law.”
On Wednesday, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson told 404 Media in a statement that ICE will prioritize the results of the app over birth certificates. “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien,” he said. “ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien
Because we all know apps are as good as the data that was input or uploaded, and mistakes never happen in this process 🙄
The future is here - and it ain't pretty.
(PS - this is what all those data centers are for...)
DEFINE “NEAR”
So, if they don’t want to do what’s best for America, can federal funds be stopped to pay for this lawless cesspool?
More word rape weaseling.
What’s the definition of
” Near “ ?
Anywhere in the USA i bet.
Can’t ICE merely ignore this bill and arrest near or in courthouses as needed?