Chicago, below the burden of illegals flooding the Sanctuary Metropolis, is a catastrophe.
Now, two Chicago aldermen, Democrats Raymond Lopez and Silvana Tabares, have launched laws to roll again components of town’s sanctuary legislation.
However not for the explanation one would anticipate, to guard Chicagoans, however moderately “to guard law-abiding non-citizens.”
Lopes and Tabares need to ensure that “law-abiding illegals” (who entered the nation illegally) aren’t swept up in efforts to deport these accused of different crimes.
Lopez shared the proposed modification to Chicago’s Welcoming Metropolis Ordinance on X, calling for exceptions when a migrant has been arrested or convicted of sure felony actions.
Lopez shared on X, “Yesterday @AldermanTabares and I filed a Rule 41 Discover for our proposed modification to the Welcoming Metropolis Ordinance. We intend to name the matter for a ground vote subsequent Wednesday.”
“We imagine that one of the simplest ways to guard law-abiding non-citizens from the returning Trump Administration is by working with them in apprehending their precedence targets: non-citizens that CHOOSE to have interaction in harmful, criminality as soon as they’re in america. Our present WCO prohibits any coordination or cooperation, even in essentially the most heinous conditions.”
“This coverage is harmful to these law-abiding undocumented and non-citizens residents as a result of, if somebody is arrested or convicted of crimes, the federal authorities aren’t notified. Ought to the federal authorities go in search of these particular people looking for to deport them, there’s a excessive chance that different targets, law-abiding undocumented and non-citizen residents, could also be apprehended and deported as collateral injury. That’s a completely unacceptable but avoidable state of affairs.”
“We aren’t involved with the political theatrics of returning President Trump or Mayor Johnson. Our purpose is to guard people who deserve our safety: these undocumented and non-citizen residents of Chicago that observe the legislation and contribute positively to our metropolis whereas ready for a path out of the shadows. This modification to the WCO, which is slim in scope and particular on when it may be activated, will hold these people secure whereas sustaining the spirit of our metropolis’s historical past and immigrant traditions.”
Yesterday @AldermanTabares and I filed a Rule 41 Discover for our proposed modification to the Welcoming Metropolis Ordinance. We intend to name the matter for a ground vote subsequent Wednesday.
We imagine that one of the simplest ways to guard law-abiding non-citizens from the returning Trump… pic.twitter.com/tEGRQRZ27r
— Ald. Raymond Lopez (@RaymondALopez) January 8, 2025
