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“If we’re working to make sure that we’re keeping the peace,
this has nothing to do with immigration,” Snelling said Monday
at a separate news conference.
Snelling reiterated local police will not assist in federal
immigration enforcement.
Stories of federal agents being assaulted with vehicles and
other incidents were reported over the weekend in and near
Chicago. Snelling told reporters that the public better
understand there are consequences to their actions.
“When you plow into a vehicle that contains law enforcement
agents, you’re using deadly force and they can use deadly force
in response to stop you,” Snelling said.
Federal prosecutors announced charges against several
individuals alleging they used their vehicles to assault ICE
officers. One of them was shot by an officer, and was found down
the road with the vehicle and treated at a hospital.
Snelling said Chicago officers will communicate directly with
federal officials to keep the peace in other situations where
protesters may be encroaching on immigration enforcement.
“So that they understand that we’re going to cover that front
line so that it will be unnecessary to use these chemical
agents,” Snelling said.
Democrats complained federal agents used chemical agents to
disperse crowds.
To Johnson’s “ICE-free zone” executive order, the White House
put out an email saying it was a “disgusting betrayal of every
law-abiding citizen.”
“Johnson’s pathetic excuse that enforcing our nation’s
immigration laws somehow ‘undermines community trust’ exposes
his true loyalty: to criminal illegal alien predators, not the
terrified families of Chicago,” the White House email said.
“Shielding the most depraved, violent criminal illegal aliens
from justice is not only an insult to every Chicagoan, it’s also
a dangerous intensification of Democrats’ lunatic ‘sanctuary’
agenda where criminal illegals come before American citizens.”
The order limits federal immigration officers’ use of city
property, among other things.
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