Mayor Brandon Johnson Warns Trump That Chicago Has ‘To Go AS Far as Necessary’ To Protect the Constitution – ryan

Mayor Brandon Johnson Declared Tuesday that chicagoans “have to go as far as necessary” to “Protect Our Constitution” as the Trump Administration Its Sight on the City as Target for Militarized Immigration Enforcement.

Chicago Officials Confirmed Last Week They Bracing to Be One of Five CITIES WHERE President Donald Trump Set Tactical Teams, Equipped with “Mini Tanks” to Carry Out Raids at Immigration Courts and Elsewhere. An unnaamed Trump Official Administration Quoted in Rolling Stone Magazine Said Monday “Chicago is Next, if they Go Too Far.”

“Whatever is necessary. … we should all be commedted to doing just that,” Johnson said in response to the remark at a City Halls Conference. “Whether it in the Courts, Whether it in the Streets or with policy, we’re going to continue to defy and stand up for working People.”

Johnson’s Repeated, Forceful Rebuke of President Comes as HIS Team Continuing to Figure Out How to Fight Back in the Face of Potential Military Presence.

And it coma as he was heat heat after the revelation that his ows department has routinely shared information of arrests at the Request of Federal Immigration Officials, Despite Laws Aimed at Prohibling Such Information-Sharing.

SO FAR, Johnson’s Resistance to Aggresive Deportation Raids Has Meant Supporting California’s Lawsuit Against the Trump Over the Federal Deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, A Power the plaintiffs argued is reserve for governors and violates.

The City of Chicago’s Law Department ALSO Decline to Turn Over Records of those who’ve Applied for the CityKey Program, a Government id used by undocumented chicagoans.

And the City is Restarting Its “Know Your Rights” Publicity Campaign on Trains and Buses, Johnson Said Tuesday, Which Directs Riders to Online Resources About what to do in the face of USMIGRATION AND CUSTOMs Enforcement Agents.

As Johnson’s Team Scrambles to Find Ways to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Trump’s Aggresses and al The deceptive Deportation Stings, Officials Have Yet to Give a Clear Explanation for Why the Chicago Police Department Has Routinely Provided Personal Information of arrests when by Ice and Other Federal Immigration Enforcement Agencies, as the Sun-Times Reported Friday.

Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance Dictates that police are only supposed to share information with Ice “Required to do so by statutes, federal regulation, court Order, or a lawfuly ised Judicial Warrant.”

Absent that, Officers are not supposed to “Expended time responding to Ice Ice Inquiries or Communicating with Ice Regarding A Custody Status, Release Date or Contact Information.”

Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry appeared to imply the City was Required to Share the Information-Including Names, Dates of Birth and Countries of Arrests-Due to the Freedom of Information Act, or Foia, that chicago is subjetCt to. That is the mechanism ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, and Customs and Border Patrol Used to Request the Information.

“This actually may be an opportunity for us to revisis the laws and See where there are an opportunity to contract the parameters of foia so that nation of origin, for instance, to do not be information is subject to release,” Richardson-Llow at Tsidy News Conference. “But in terms of the specific, I won’t get into Those details Because we are reviWing those with cpd.”

Richardson-Lowry Declined to Say Where The Police Department Should Be Redacting That Personal Information from Arrest Records before Sending It to Federal Agents. Johnson Declined to comment on the enterely, reference only to richardson-lowry.

The Police Department of Document-Sharing Revelation Has Caused Constation Several Chicago Alderpersons, WHO BOTH PLAYOR FOR HIS EFFORTS BUTDES HIM TO ADDRESS The opacies of the Police Department with Ice More UrGently.

“The Mayor Should Be on Top of this,” Said 22nd Ward Ald. Mike Rodriguez. “I WOULD HOPE The Mayor Knows Exactly What Happened at this point and is able to communicate that at the right time, and that’s asap.”

ALD. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, of the 25th ward, urged the Mayor to call for an investigation.

Outside of Police Department Record-Sharing, Sigcho-Lopez Said the City Should More Proactive Steps to Brace for Aggressive Raids. For Instance, The Mayor Should Deploy Local Police to Schools, Libraries and Other Public Buildings, he Said, as a line of defense against agents attempting to gain access a warrant.

In los angeles, school police set up a “safety perimeter” Around Campus to Keep Federal Immigration Agents out, The LA Times Reported. That’s after trump reverse a biden administration policy that far -exempted schools and churches from immigration enforcement.

“That is Within Our Rights to Keep Children Safe from Abductions, Just as la has done,” Sigcho-Lopez Said. “We Should Be Proactive and Expect the Trump Administration to Escalate Violence.”

Sigcho-lopez plans to raise this idea and concertns over record-sharing at a fortComing commutee Hearing by 40th ward ald. Andre Vasquez, Chair of the City Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Meant to Probe Police Department Involvement with Immigration Enforcement.

That Hearing, Yet to Be Scheduled, was Called in Response to the Police Department of June 4 Presence at A Raid Where Were arrest AMID Routine Immigration Checkups in A South Loop Office.

Johnson has Said’s Revisionwing the Police Department of Role but has also defended the department, saying it’s its Job to kep Streets amid Protests, which is why offers at the scene.

Meanwhile, Immigrants Across Chicago Have Had to Grapple With Their Own Choices About How to Protect Themselves from Deportation.

Beatriz Ponce de León, Chicago’s Deputy Mayor for Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights, Said the Tactic of Details Immigrants at Work, or at their Immigration Check-in Appointments, has led to an impossible choice for those. Their Daily Lives.

The City “Can’t Tell People Not to Be Afraid” But “What We Can Give People Information,” Ponce de León Said.

“Our families have to think who will have the children if someone is detail, About Maybe Guardianship to Someone They Trust, Filing, Keeping Their Important Documents in A Safe Place, and Vent Power of Attorney for the Financial Resonies to Their Reson. Someone.

Ponce de Leon Directed Families to Illinoisimmigrationfo.orgwhich has resources to help People prepare for worst-case scenarios.