Illinois is suing to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, while state leaders brace for potential raids aimed at removing individuals in the U.S. without legal documentation. Federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials could be targeting as many as 2,000 Chicagoans, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday morning. “I don’t know whether they’ll effectuate that or how,” Pritzker said.
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But Pritzker also said that President Donald Trump’s new administration has had zero communication with his office about ICE’s plans. That lack of information is “just more evidence of the chaos and confusion that they’re trying to sow” Pritzker said in response to reporters’ questions after an unrelated press conference. “It’s very disappointing,” the Democratic governor said. Trump’s immigration czar Tom Homan has said ICE agents would carry out mass raids in Chicago first, but walked that back after media reports the blitz would begin the day after Trump’s inauguration. “Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Homan said, according to
multiple media reports , when he was the featured guest in December at a Republican party in Chicago. “We’re going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois. If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside.” He also last week said in an interview on
Fox News that Chicago would be among the first cities targeted for raids. But after widespread reporting the raids would begin Tuesday, Homan
told the Washington Post that leaked information about the plans would endanger ICE agents so those plans were off, and that he didn’t know why there was such immense focus on Chicago given that the raids would be carried out all over the U.S. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a lawsuit Tuesday afternoon challenging Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. Illinois joined a coalition with three other states in filing suit.
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