A hat tip goes to the Illinois Minuteman Project for bringing me this information. There is a bill going through the Illinois legislature that would effectively end the sanctuary policy of such cities as Chicago. Here is an explanation of the bill.
Provides that upon admission of a committed person to a facility of the Department of Corrections or to a facility of the Department of Juvenile Justice and upon the discharge of such person from either such Department, each such Department, if it suspects that such person is an alien of the United States who is unlawfully present within the United States in violation of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act shall notify the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of the admission or discharge of such alien from the facility.
The bill is being sponsored by Rep. Bill Mitchell, Ron Stephens, Roger Eddy, and Rep Michael Tryon. I have written about the corrosive effect of sanctuary cities before, and I hope this is a good step in the right direction toward ending them.
This bill was introduced By Randy Ramey (R) from the 55th dist. Chicago Minuteman, Fox Valley Minuteman, and Midwest Minuteman were also responsible for the movement of this bill. The Speaker Mike Madigan helped keep this bill alive so it would not die in committee.
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