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Chicago Mayor Makes It Perfectly Clear — The Windy City Will Not Cooperate With ICE Raids

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Her name is Lori Lightfoot.

She’s the far-left Democrat mayor of Chicago that replaced far-left Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Lightfoot wants illegal aliens to know that they are welcome in the Windy City, because who needs laws?

Check this out, per Daily Caller:

Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as it seeks to deport illegal immigrants in cities across America.

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ICE has promised to begin the task of large-scale deportation this weekend but Lightfoot tweeted Friday that “Chicago has taken concrete steps to support our immigrant communities.”

Lori’s tweets:

THREAD 1/ We are all aware of the threat from President Trump regarding raids by ICE, and in response, Chicago has taken concrete steps to support our immigrant communities.

2/ I have directed – and Superintendent Johnson has confirmed – that CPD has terminated ICE’s access to CPD’s databases related to federal immigration enforcement activities.

3/ I have also personally spoken with ICE leadership in Chicago and voiced my strong objection to any such raids. Further, I reiterated that CPD will not cooperate with or facilitate any ICE enforcement actions.

4/ Chicago will always be a welcoming city and a champion for the rights of our immigrant and refugee communities, and I encourage any resident in need of legal aid to contact the National Immigrant Justice Center (@NIJC). More info here:

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Trump sent the following tweet on Saturday:

The people that Ice will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported. This means that they have run from the law and run from the courts. These are people that are supposed to go back to their home country. They broke the law by coming into the country, & now by staying.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1142409512240013313?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1142409512240013313&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2019%2F06%2F22%2Fchicago-mayor-will-not-assist-ice-deport-illegal-immigrants%2F

Emanuel was once Barack Obama’s top aide.

Keep that in mind while you read his message about America being a “sanctuary country.”

The problem is that Rahm truly believes what he’s saying.

LOOK:

What President Trump fails to understand is that America is a sanctuary country. Small, medium & large cities across the nation are suddenly & rapidly identifying as sanctuary cities because of the abandonment of Americans values, ideals & cultural destiny under Trump’s watch.

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Rahm understands the seriousness of letting hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett walk free, and he’s ticked off about the whole situation.

Emanuel wants Smollett to cut the city a $130,000 check.

See it:

Check out what should be written by Jussie in the memo line…

More from USA Today:

Chicago’s Department of Law sent Smollett a letter threatening that if the $130,000 “is not timely paid,” the city will go after him in court for making false statements, thus allowing them to collect more money from him under the municipal code.

According to the letter, violation of the false statement ordinance allows the city to collect up to three times the amount of damages the city sustains as a result of the violation – in Smollett’s case, that would be $390,000.

Emanuel said police department officials are still assembling the costs of the investigation that began shortly after Smollett reported to police on Jan. 29 that he was the victim of a brutal attack by assailants who yelled racial and homophobic slurs as they beat him. The actor also told police that the assailants yelled “This is MAGA country” during the assault.

H/T: Twitchy

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John Salvatore has been a Writer and Editor of multiple political blogs since early 2015. He earned his Master’s degree in Public Administration upon completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. A diehard Los Angeles Dodgers fan, John can be reached at [email protected].




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