(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Mayor Johnson says Chicago is continuing to protect immigrants as he says the Trump administration continues to violate the Constitution.
"Every single executive order, we see it as a threat, and we will do everything in our power to ensure that working people are defended in this city."
Mayor Johnson says he's taking the Trump administration's slew of executive orders seriously, especially those targeting undocumented immigrants in Chicago.
Meanwhile, he says Chicago is standing its ground as a sanctuary city.
"These are challenges that have existed for a very long time. But what is impressive about Chicago is that we always stand the test of time, and so for me, it doesn't change the meaning… it places us front and center to have a real, substantive dialog of what it means to be a global city."
He also calls on the President to pass "substantive, comprehensive immigration policy."
"We can set stronger parameters around how we create pathways to citizenship, how we have more support at the border, actually fund judges so asylum cases can be moved through faster. These are the intelligent, responsible decisions that need to be made so that we're not simply having a conversation around how a city situates its status in terms of its relationship to the globe."
This all comes as the mayor says he is reviewing an invitation from the Oversight Committee to testify in a sanctuary city hearing scheduled for next week.
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