Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order instructing the city’s police force to investigate any allegations that federal immigration agents engaged in illegal conduct and to forward cases for prosecution where appropriate, his office said Saturday.
In a written statement, Johnson said: "With today’s order, we are putting ICE on notice in our city. Chicago will not sit idly by while Trump floods federal agents into our communities and terrorizes our residents."
The order lays out specific steps for Chicago police officers when federal immigration agents are present. Officers are directed to preserve body-worn camera recordings of incidents, to identify the federal supervisory officer on the scene, and to complete reports documenting any alleged violations of state or local law by federal personnel.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the mayor’s action.
Legal protections for federal officers are noted in the order’s context: federal agents are generally immune from state prosecution for actions taken as part of their official duties. That immunity applies only where an officer’s actions were authorized under federal law and were necessary and proper.
The mayor’s directive is part of a broader pattern of resistance among Democratic state and local officials to intensified federal immigration enforcement. The movement gained particular attention after two U.S. citizens were killed in Minneapolis by federal agents, prompting heightened scrutiny of the scale and conduct of federal operations.
In Minnesota, state officials sued the federal government over an influx of immigration officers. A federal judge on Saturday declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have suspended the operation.
Separately, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, introduced legislation on Friday that would bar local law enforcement from being deputized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to participate in immigration enforcement operations.
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