CHICAGO (CBS) — The City Council on Wednesday blocked an effort by some of the council’s more conservative alderpeople to water down Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance protecting undocumented immigrants, amid a threat from the incoming Trump administration to make the city “ground zero” for a mass deportation effort.
Alders voted 39-11 to table an effort to force a vote on an amendment proposed by Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th) and Silvana Tabares (23rd) to allow the Chicago Police Department to work with federal immigration agencies in cases where undocumented immigrants have been arrested or convicted of certain crimes.
Currently, under the Welcoming City Ordinance, Chicago police are barred police from cooperating with federal authorities in any immigration enforcement efforts…