Chicago PD says it ‘will not assist’ with upcoming ICE deportations

The Chicago Police Department said Monday it volition not assistance with looming deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crossed the Windy City, arsenic President Trump vows to enforce sweeping borderline information policies crossed the country.

President Trump made his instrumentality to the White House connected Monday, and during his inauguration, laid retired plans to tackle issues surrounding amerciable migration and a weakened border.

"First, I volition state a nationalist exigency astatine our confederate border. All amerciable introduction volition instantly beryllium halted, and we volition statesman the process of returning millions and millions of transgression aliens backmost to the places from which they came," Trump said, adding that helium volition extremity drawback and merchandise and nonstop troops to the confederate borderline to repel what helium called the "disastrous penetration of our country. "By invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I volition nonstop our authorities to usage the afloat and immense powerfulness of national and authorities instrumentality enforcement to destruct the beingness of each overseas gangs and transgression networks, bringing devastating transgression to U.S. soil, including our cities and interior cities."

But contempt President Trump’s vow to region unsafe amerciable immigrants and nonstop them backmost to their countries, Chicago officials took a vow of their ain to not comply.

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Anti-Trump activists protestation successful Chicago's Loop connected the time of Donald Trump's inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.  (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Chicago police said the municipal codification includes authorities that prevents them from assisting national migration authorities with enforcement based connected migration status. The section besides noted it does not papers migration status, nor does it stock the migration presumption of individuals with national authorities.

City ordinance requires a supervisor to respond to the country if an migration bureau requests assistance with a civilian migration enforcement operation.

If the petition is to assistance successful the enforcement of civilian migration law, the supervisor volition diminution the request, but if it is unrelated to civilian migration law, the supervisor volition person due constabulary enactment taken.

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Chicago Police Department conveyance connected metropolis street.  (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"To beryllium clear, the Chicago Police Department volition not assistance oregon intervene successful civilian migration enforcement successful accordance with the City of Chicago Municipal Code," the constabulary department’s connection read. "As always, we volition proceed to enforce the instrumentality if a transgression occurs, careless of the citizenship presumption of those involved."

The constabulary section issued the connection a time aft Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson doubled down connected his vow to reason Trump’s sweeping betterment aimed astatine removing unsafe amerciable immigrants accused of crimes from the U.S. erstwhile helium returns to office.

The mayor’s bureau assured the metropolis would proceed to comply with the 2017 Illinois Trust Act, which prohibits section instrumentality enforcement from participating successful national migration enforcement.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed to not assistance national agencies with migration enforcement. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

"Chicago stands strong: careless of the circumstances, our committedness to protecting and supporting this metropolis remains unwavering," Johnson wrote successful a societal media post. "We volition proceed to combat for the justness and information of each who telephone this spot home."

Tens of thousands of amerciable immigrants are residing successful Chicago, contempt residents pleading with metropolis officials astir however determination are not capable resources to supply for them. More than 20,000 migrants person arrived successful the metropolis since August 2022, according to erstwhile reports from Fox 32 Chicago, and thousands are successful shelters.

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Sheltering migrants has drawn ire from residents aft it has reportedly outgo the metropolis $574.5 cardinal since August 2022. At a erstwhile metropolis assembly gathering connected December 3rd, residents objected to an astir $60 cardinal spot taxation summation that was projected to assistance officials flooded a $1 cardinal fund shortfall by the extremity of past year.

Fox News Digital’s Joshua Q. Nelson contributed to this report.