Legal Insurrection by Mary Chastain 10/2/2026
“Over the past 20 months alone, illegal aliens have gone on to commit murder, domestic violence, and robbery after the Chicago Police Department (CPD) released them back onto Illinois streets in defiance of ICE detainers.”A House Judiciary Committee interim report shows that Illinois and Chicago, both considered sanctuary jurisdictions, released over 500 illegal aliens despite ICE detainers.
“Over the past 20 months alone, illegal aliens have gone on to commit murder, domestic violence, and robbery after the Chicago Police Department (CPD) released them back onto Illinois streets in defiance of ICE detainers,” according to the report.
Illinois’s sanctuary status began during President Donald Trump’s term when then-Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a law restricting “cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration officials and undermined federal detainer requests.”
In 2021, current Gov. JB Pritzker strengthened Rauner’s law, prohibiting local governments from signing contracts with ICE and forbidding ‘officials from inquiring about the citizenship or immigration status of an individual in custody unless they’re presented with a federal criminal warrant, or otherwise required by federal law.’”
Chicago’s sanctuary status began in 2012, with an update in 2021:
prohibits city agencies, including the Chicago Police Department, from: [d]etaining, arresting, or continuing to hold anyone solely based on their immigration status or civil immigration warrants[;] [t]ransferring individuals to ICE custody for civil immigration enforcement[;] [a]ssisting federal immigration authorities in any civil enforcement operations, such as providing traffic perimeters, on-site support, or sharing detention information[;]
ncluding immigration-related questions in city agency forms or maintaining records of a person’s status; it also removes “citizen” terminology in official code, replacing it with inclusive language such as “person” or “resident[.]”
More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/10/report-illinois-chicago-released-over-500-criminal-illegal-aliens-despite-ice-detainers/
