by The Ministry of Justice has sued the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and other local jurisdictions that claim that their laws stand in the way of the Trump government Increased enforcement of immigration In the area, according to a federal lawsuit that was filed on Thursday.
In the first legal bid of the Trump government to hinder local efforts to obstruct Immigration activitiesFederal officials ask a judge to ban the Illinois, Chicago, Cook County and the Sheriff of Cook County to use local laws that protect migrants to hinder the police.
The Ministry of Justice said that certain national and local provisions were “designed to and in fact have the enforcement of federal immigration legislation by federal immigration legislation” and to work the accused local officials to hinder federal efforts for illegal migration to curb, dispute allegations of government officials.
According to the complaint, between 2016 and 2025, more than 13,000 migrants were arrested without paper by immigration officials in Illinois.
“The behavior of civil servants in Chicago and Illinois minimize – and often affirmative transverse – federal immigration laws for a period of years have led to countless criminals in Chicago being released that should have been detained for immigration removal from the United States,” the court case ” supposedly.
The Ministry of Justice urged the court to join the state and local laws in Illinois and Chicago are substantiated, sharing certain information with federal authorities prohibiting the sharing of the federal authorities and fear of migrants without papers In those jurisdictions more difficult.
In a statement, the office of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker back on the lawsuit, defended the Studies Act and said they would fight in court.
“The Bipartisan Illinois Trust Act act, signed by a Republican Governor, has always been in accordance with federal law and is still today. Illinois will defend our laws that prioritize police sources for combating crime, while the state -legally enforcement is established to to help arrest violent criminals, “said the statement in part.
CBS News has contacted Burgemeester Brandon Johnson of Chicago, the Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Cook County Sheriff for a response to the newly filled court case.
During a recent press conference, Pritzker said: “We have adopted laws in Illinois to protect people and we will continue to concentrate on taking action where they are most threatened.”
The legal challenge comes only one day after the attorney -general PAM Bondi ordered the Ministry of Justice to stop financing into jurisdictions that “unlawfully interfere with federal law enforcement operations” and encouraged federal prosecutors throughout the country to pursue states that do not comply with At the immigration of the federal government attempts.
Bondi-Worship as the best law enforcement officer of the nation that same day in a memo: “State and local actors may not hinder, hinder or otherwise fail to comply with legal immigration-related guidelines.”
Last month, the leadership of the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement throughout the country ordered to concentrate on the implementation of President Trump’s immigration policy and said that they may have to sue state or local officials who hinder their efforts.
“The Supremacy clause and other authorities require that the national and local actors comply with the immigration enforcement initiatives of the executive. The federal law prohibits national and local actors to resist, hinder and otherwise comply with legal immigration-related orders And requests, “Actions,” Actions, “Actions,” Actions, “Actions,” Actions, “Action deputy attorney General Emil Bove wrote in a January Memo obtained by CBS News.
BEFE and other Trump administration officials later traveled to Chicago to participate in immigration enforcement operations in the city.
