Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s announcement of an executive order aimed at prosecuting federal immigration agents quickly unraveled Saturday when Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke publicly contradicted Johnson’s claim that her office was intimately involved in crafting the order.
Standing alongside about two dozen elected officials and community members, Johnson declared that Chicago would become “the first city in the country to set the groundwork to prosecute ICE and Border Patrol agents for criminal misconduct.”
“If the federal government will not hold these rogue actors accountable, then Chicago will do everything in our power to bring these agents to justice,” Johnson said…