Posted on 10/07/2025 9:23:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO’S ‘ICE-FREE ZONE.’ One of the main themes of the second Trump administration has been the explosive collision between the president’s determination to enforce federal immigration law and many Democratic leaders’ determination not to enforce federal immigration law.
Conflicts have arisen across the country, ranging from peaceful protests to violent protests to obstruction of immigration authorities’ work to attempted murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The latest big fight is in Illinois, where the Democratic governor, who wants to be president, is fighting with President Donald Trump, and the Democratic mayor of Chicago has announced a new tactic to nullify federal law.
Chicago is already a sanctuary city, meaning that it prohibits, or severely limits, its law enforcement officers from cooperating with federal law enforcement. It goes as far toward defying federal law as is possible. Now, Mayor Brandon Johnson has issued an executive order declaring Chicago an “ICE-free zone.”
“Today we are signing an executive order aimed at reining in this out-of-control administration,” Johnson announced Monday. “The order establishes ICE-free zones. That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for [immigration] raids.”
Johnson said he acted after reports that federal agents used Chicago Public Schools parking lots, as well as another city-owned parking lot, as “staging sites for federal immigration enforcement operations.” This, Johnson said, violates Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance.”
The Welcoming City law, passed in 2021, does three things, in the words of an explainer posted by a local official active in such matters, 40th Ward Alderman Andre Vasquez: “1) It prohibits any city employee from asking about or assisting in the investigation of the immigration status of anyone, unless ordered to...
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Smells like insurrection.
They are pushing Americans to view their efforts in exactly that light.
They are pushing for it. It is going to come to a head at some point.
Ignore it.
Dare CPD to try and enforce it.
L
Tom Homan less than pleased.
Chicago can declare all the ICE-free zones it wants but trying to enforce them would escalate the situation into direct confrontation with feds and therefore be tantamount to insurrection.
ICEs jurisdiction is the entire nation…. This guy has zero authority to create such nonsense.
America needs a Chicago free zone
More like sedition.
Federal Preemption Brandon.
The dumb sucker believes he can ban ICE and other Feds from City Property.
Time for an ICE raid on City Hall.
and hes going to do what????
not one democrat has gone to jail
and guess where the city of chicongo put all the illegals, in the black hoods,
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