CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - As some in the City Council move to weaken Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office is issuing a warning.
Alderman Raymond Lopez says he and colleague Alderwoman Silvana Tabares are going through with their attempt to force a vote today on a bid to loosen restrictions on police in the City’s Welcoming City ordinance.
They want police to be able to assist federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in trying to deport undocumented immigrants accused of crimes.
A spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says that proposal is in conflict with the state’s TRUST act, which is similar to Chicago’s law, but covers the whole state.
“The proposal is fraught with due process issues and seems to have unintended consequences of racial profiling, with its references to loitering, and retraumatizing survivors of human trafficking who were forced into prostitution,” she says in a statement.
She adds that state law does not give local law enforcement the power to enforce federal immigration laws.
Cooperation with the feds is okay on joint criminal action against drug trafficking, gun trafficking and such. But, the office says there are due process issues when it comes to federal immigration laws.
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