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Posted on 10/31/2025 8:13:03 PM PDT by Libloather
Illinois lawmakers passed a bill on Friday prohibiting federal agents from making immigration arrests near courthouses.
The measure also allows lawsuits when people believe their constitutional rights were violated during civil immigration arrests.
The legislation, approved largely along party lines, was sent to Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker's desk. His office said he supports the idea and will review the proposal when it reaches his desk.
According to the bill, civil damages for false imprisonment could be imposed when a migrant attending a court hearing or appearing as a party or witness to a legal proceeding is arrested.
Supporters of the bill say courts must be accessible to everyone to seek resolutions to violations of their rights, but even one of the measure's top sponsors acknowledges it will face an uphill battle in court.
"It’s not just about the constitutionality of the law, which I think is sound, but it’s the reality that the courts are stacked against us," Democrat Senate President Don Harmon said. "The federal government can try to remove it from state courts to federal courts. They can try to substitute the government itself for the individual defendants, but that’s not a reason not to try."
Earlier this month, a judge in Cook County, which includes Chicago, issued an order blocking immigration arrests at county courthouses, citing concerns about "fear or obstruction" while migrants attend court proceedings. The order prohibits immigration authorities from making civil arrests of any "party, witness, or potential witness" during court appearances.
The federal government, however, contended that "there are no legal sanctuaries where you can hide and avoid the consequences for breaking the law."
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I seriously doubt they can prevent ICE from doing this.
Anarcho-tyranny writ large.
Meaningless. Watch the feds studiously ignore this law.
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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.
Yes. I don’t see how they can do it. This is just Leftist posturing.
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”. This means that federal law takes precedence over conflicting state laws, and state judges are bound to follow federal law. It is a cornerstone of American federalism, ensuring that the federal government can enact and enforce national legislation without interference from individual states.
rlmorel,
You seem to be a thoughtful person,
However I would you have figured by now
Democrats are idiots and ignore laws
that violate their very sensitive
emotional beliefs.
Article VI...?
Well put.
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.
ICE needs to arrest anyone who interferes, that includes judges, court personnel, and politicians. Arrest enough of them and this nonsense will stop quickly.
RE: “near courthouses.”
How near?
All the places I looked said “no specific distance” is in the legislation.
That's a sure laugh line at all the drinking parties of the judges.
"Stop it, stop it, you're killing me." 😁😁
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...)
Correct.
I’d bet much of LE in Illinois law enforcement would simply allow the Feds to do their jobs.
Illinois has the same problem as does Virginia, one monster metropolis dominating a red state.
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