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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday against Chicago, Cook County and the authorities of Illinois, accusing officials of interfering with migration enforcement efforts.
The suit comes connected the heels of a national justice blocking President Donald Trump's enforcement order preventing the children of migrants without ineligible presumption from receiving birthright citizenship for the 2nd clip this week.
Chicago and Illinois leaders vow to fight DOJ
Local leaders are pushing backmost against the Trump administration, asserting the metropolis maintains its welcoming presumption contempt national pressure.
The DOJ's suit argues Chicago's authorities and section laws — specified arsenic the Illinois Way Forward Act, the Illinois Trust Act and Chicago's Welcoming City Ordinance, which bounds section constabulary practice with ICE agents — interfere with the national government's migration enforcement.
Additionally, it argues the supremacy clause of the Constitution gives the national authorities the close to make and enforce laws without interference from states.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker defended the laws.
"Unlike Donald Trump, Illinois follows the law," helium said, adding that the Trust Act was signed into instrumentality by a Republican politician and "has ever been compliant with national instrumentality and inactive is today."
"We look guardant to seeing them successful court," Pritzker said.
Sheriff: Illinois Trust Act ties our hands
Some section instrumentality enforcement officials, specified arsenic Winnebago County Sheriff Gary Caruana, reason the existent authorities prevents their quality to bash their jobs effectively.
"The Trust Act does not let america to telephone migration and accidental this idiosyncratic has an contented and could beryllium unsafe — and this is wherever I'm acrophobic astir nationalist information — this idiosyncratic could beryllium dangerous, you mightiness privation to instrumentality a look astatine this. We can't bash that," helium said.
In a societal media post, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the suit is nether reappraisal by the city's instrumentality section and reaffirmed the city's committedness to protecting residents.
Earlier this week, Johnson accused the Trump medication of trying to undermine Chicago's humanity and called for Congress to walk migration reform.
