Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, both Democrats, are reportedly blocking ICE agents from entering prisons and jails to deport hundreds of illegal aliens in the sanctuary city of Chicago.
Real America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam reports that there are about 300 illegal aliens in jail with ICE detainer requests, but leftist Chicago officials will not let ICE take them to be deported.
An immigration detainer is a request from ICE that asks local law enforcement agencies, including jails and prisons, to “notify the requesting agency as early as possible before they release a removable alien” and “hold the alien for up to 48 hours beyond the time they would ordinarily release them so DHS has time to assume custody in accordance with federal immigration law,” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Immigration detainers are requests from federal law enforcement officers and agents, and officials only lodge them against aliens when there’s probable cause to believe that the person is removable from the United States under federal immigration law.”
“You’re going to see the federal government come after these cities and states in a way we’ve never seen before,” Berguam said. “I think we’re going to see defunding of sanctuary communities that don’t allow these ICE officers into their jails.”
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Illinois officials are working to sabotage the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts through legislative changes and preventing Chicago Police from working with the Federal government to remove illegals involved in drug crimes, gang-related crimes, prostitution, human trafficking, or child sex crimes.
The far-left Governor, JB Pritzker, was also recently caught making up a hoax, claiming that ICE agents raided an elementary school in Chicago last Friday.
Ben Bergquam shared more on Bannon’s War Room about Illinois officials’ defiance of ICE detainer requests for illegal aliens.
Watch below:
Bannon: Pritzker’s, you know, he’s walking around preening, that’s a big victory. He’s standing down Homan and Trump. What’s your forecast, since you’re riding shotgun out there, what’s your forecast on this?
Bergquam: Well, yesterday was the kickoff of this, and I had the opportunity to ride with the Acting Deputy Attorney, Emil Bove, and he was there with me. I was actually in the car. I had a long opportunity to talk with him, and he was there to see just how bad it was, and he was shocked. He was absolutely shocked. So, you’re going to see the federal government come after these cities and states in a way we’ve never seen before. I think we’re going to see defunding of sanctuary communities that don’t allow these ICE officers into their jails.
Just to give you an idea, the ICE agent that I was with yesterday said there’s 300 being held with detainers right now that they will not let have— they will not give to ICE. So, they should be picking these guys up by the hundreds. And we spent millions of dollars yesterday to get a few of these guys off the street.
Bannon: Repeat that to the audience. How many?
Bergquam: 300, as of yesterday, just in Chicago is what the ice agent I was riding with told me.
Bannon: Bove is the number three guy in the Justice Department. He’s one of President Trump’s lawyers. This guy’s a heavy hitter. Are you telling me he was shocked? It’s tough to shock him. You tell me he’s shocked?
Bergquam: He was, I would even say, outraged. He could not believe what these guys— look, Steve, these guys are ICE agents. They’re not, you know, they’re not able to go down, bust down doors and get most of these guys. They’re getting administrative warrants to go; they have to knock on the door and wait for the people to walk out of the door.
We had one guy looking out the window refusing to come to the door, and we had to leave! I mean, that’s how insane this is. So, they wanted to test the waters and see how bad it was, and Bove and Homan, these guys got to see it is catastrophic. And what we have to have, you have to defund these guys, you have to go directly after Johnson, you have to go directly after Pritzker, and then again, Dragnet, and start rounding them up, because you’re right, it’s a drop in the bucket of what we have to do to secure this country.
Bannon: Ben, as you’re riding with Homan? What’s the what’s the spirit out there with the ICE agents? What’s the spirit with Homan? Where do we stand? Are people pumped up? Are they depressed? Where do we stand with all that?
Bergquam: Yeah, they’re pumped up to be able to do their job, but, you know, one of them said it’s like drinking out of a fire hose, you know, going from what they had to do before, what they were forced to do, not do their jobs. Now, the task that’s in front of them, it almost seems insurmountable. That’s why it’s so critical that we get the 287G program rolling out in all the conservative areas. Now, obviously, in a state like Illinois, communist state like this, that’s given their state over to illegals, 287G doesn’t apply, but everywhere else across the country, it does.
We’ve got to empower our sheriffs. You see what’s happening in some of the states; Mississippi and Louisiana are talking about doing some bounty hunter operations. You’ve got to come from all directions on this. But first things first, we got to go after these governors, mayors, everyone who’s running these sanctuary cities, and hold them accountable.
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