Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed a sweeping, but largely symbolic on Saturday afternoon to protect the rights of the population in preparation for federal agents who may reach Chicago for great efforts to enforce immigration. It also seeks to prevent any federal agents working in Chicago from wearing masks, and asking them to wear badges and other identification information.
Democratic mayor’s signing of the “Chicago Initiative” comes amid increasing concerns about military deployment to the third largest city in America, just on Friday. The mayor said in a press conference that the matter seeks to ensure that the population knows their rights, and every part of the city government is directed to protect the population from federal work.
Johnson said, “This executive conclusively explains that this president will not enter and scream with our police station,” Johnson said conclusively. “We do not want to see the tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families torn. We do not want the grandmothers to be thrown into the back of the unique vehicles. We do not want to see the displaced Chicago who are harassed or disappeared by federal agents. We do not want to see Chicago returning to sitting on their balcony.
The mayor’s order is “the Trump administration” to “excavate any attempts to deploy the American armed forces – including the National Guard – in Chicago.”
“The city will follow all the legal and legislative methods available to confront coordinated efforts from the federal government that violates the rights and residents of the city, including the constitutional rights to assemble, protest in peace and the right of legal procedures,” says the matter. “In line with the local, state and federal law, it is prohibited for all the city’s departments to participate in any enforcement procedures aimed at violating the rights of Chicago to assemble and protest in peace.”
It also prohibits Chicago police officers to wear any “mask, covering or camouflage while performing their official duties” except for medical masks, riots or breathing devices if necessary for health or safety reasons.
“The officers may not use this equipment for the purpose of hiding the identity,” says the matter.
It also urges “the executive order of the mayor to federal agents to comply with the policy that prevents officers from wearing masks in service, and asks them to wear body cameras and activate them whenever they interact with the public. Under the matter, police officers, federal agents and army members must also display the information that offers their agency, the last name, badge or arrangement.
Immigration and customs agents in the United States and other federal agents have wore otherly, and they did not clearly determine themselves because they carried out the Trump administration’s migration campaign.
It is not clear what measures will take the city if the federal agents or the forces ignore any directives in the executive mayor, although it suggested that the city be to file a lawsuit.
“We will use each tool at our disposal, and this includes the courts,” he said.
In addition to the requirements of law enforcement, the mayor’s order directs the city’s departments to submit requests for the Freedom of Information Law regularly to the United States’s Ministry of Internal Security to obtain information about ice, customs and border protection in Chicago.
City departments and agencies are also directed to providing accessible information easily with regard to the rights of Chicago residents when facing immigration enforcement activities near schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, places of worship and other sensitive sites.
Johnson said: “The protection of Chicago will ensure that every Chicago knows their rights, and that each one family be prepared, and every part of the city’s government is directed to protect the Chicago people from federal work.”
The first mayor said that he had received “very reliable reports” that federal agents would arrive in the city within days. However, he did not say exactly when the agents will arrive or how it might look.
“Unfortunately, we have no luxury time,” Johnson said. “We have received reliable reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees a kind of military activity by the federal government.”
Aldermen who support the mayor’s order said he is sending a clear message to the White House.
Alaa said: “It is also a statement in history to allow people to know exactly who we are as a city, what is important for us, and to call for tyranny in the White House looking to cultivate more turmoil.” André Vasquiz (40). “We are Chicago and do not defend it.”
Ald. Mike Rodriguez (22) said the mayor’s executive will help reassure people in the city who fear what was planned for the Trump administration in Chicago.
“Politics is sometimes unclear. This executive brings more clarity. It brings more assurances to our residents that the Chicago police will not be allowed to cooperate with the federal authorities. This is a big problem,” said Rodriguez (22.
In response to the executive order of Johnson, White House spokesman Abeel Jackson said, “If these democrats focus on reforming the crime in their cities instead of carrying out the exciting propaganda of the president’s criticism, their societies will be safer.”
“They must listen to his colleague in Democrat’s mayor, Morel Boser, who recently celebrated the success of the Trump administration in reducing violent crimes in Washington, DC,” Jackson said partially.
Earlier this month, President Trump Members deployed in the National Guard in Washington, DCAnd the federal government ordered the control of the capital police as part of a batch to eliminate the crime, although the data that showed the crime decreased in the city in recent years. Argue Numbers It is “false”.
“We have other bad cities as well. Very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it’s. You look at Los Angeles, and how bad it is,” the president said at the time.
In an interview with CBS News on Friday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called The ability to send federal agents to the city “The invasion”, on the pretext that Mr. Trump has “other goals” regardless of the repression of the crime.
in Social truth On Saturday evening, Mr. Trump Pritzker described as a “weak and compassionate ruler” who “just said he does not need help in preventing crime. He is crazy !!! He is the best correction, fast or coming!”
There are also fears of officials and Chicago that can look in the city Similar to what happened in Los Angeles during the springWhich included armored trucks and armed federal agents while they were arrested.
Days of protests, and in the end, the National Guard was published by the federal government on the protests of the states and local leaders in California.
Johnson said he was in contact with the mayor in Los Angeles about dealing with federal agents.
“It is time to work now,” he said.