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Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement
« on: May 14, 2025, 12:13:32 pm »
Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement
AG Raoul joins 19 other Democratic attorneys general in filing 2 lawsuits.
 
By Ben Szalinski
Published: May 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM EDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 19 other Democratic attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Tuesday against Trump administration policies designed to block federal funding to states that don’t carry out U.S. immigration enforcement.

According to the lawsuits, recently enacted policies at the U.S. departments of Homeland Security and Transportation illegally tie grant funding for items such as natural disaster recovery and road construction to whether the state participates in federal immigration enforcement. The attorneys general say the goal of the policies is to illegally force states to carry out federal immigration responsibilities.

“This FEMA and transportation funding has nothing to do with immigration,” Raoul said during a news conference. “However, it has everything to do with the safety of our residents after natural disasters and as they travel our roads, railways and in the sky.”

Under the 2017 TRUST Act signed by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, Illinois law enforcement is prohibited from arresting and, in most cases, detaining a person based solely on their immigration status or assisting immigration officials. State law does not protect people in Illinois from deportation, and federal officers can still make arrests and deport people in Illinois.

https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/05/14/illinois-seeks-prevent-feds-tying-funding-states-immigration-enforcement/
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Re: Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2025, 12:16:44 pm »
This gets back to Imam Obama who once told attorney's general, if they didn't like a law, don't enforce it.  Now they want a judge to do what they Constitution says they can't do, make laws concerning immigration.
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Re: Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2025, 01:58:27 pm »
Don't need to tie it to enforcement ... require recipients to fill out the same I-9 (proof of legal status) that employers require.

No verified I-9, no reimbursement money from the Feds to the state.

State politicians are still free to waste state funds on healthcare for illegal border crossers, just not Federal funds.

It's amazing how stingy liberals become when they have to spend their own money instead of someone else's.
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Re: Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2025, 03:38:26 pm »
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Re: Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2025, 04:50:56 pm »
Fine. Fund them.
No one said how much.

One dollar. (Don't spend it all in one place!)

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