Former ICE Director Gives Dem Mayor Law Lesson After Ordering ‘ICE-Free Zones’
Story by Harold Hutchison • 14h
A former director of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Monday that Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago violated federal law and the Constitution with his latest effort to resist immigration law enforcement.
Johnson issued an executive order creating “ICE-free zones” in Chicago, claiming that “drastic action” was necessary after a weekend in which federal agents were ambushed and Chicago police allegedly stood down rather than respond. Former ICE Director Jonathan Fahey told Fox News host John Roberts the Constitution’s supremacy clause trumped Johnson’s order.
“Normally, cities would welcome federal help that have crime problems, and you see D.C. Mayor Bowser, after initial reluctance, has actually welcomed it and the city is better off, I think, objectively. But Brandon Johnson’s new executive order is pretty amazing on a couple of fronts, because it violates two federal laws: One, the alien harboring law, which has anything to shield illegal aliens from detection and he specifically says that’s the purpose of it. It’s also a violation of federal obstruction, because it’s to impede federal agents.”
“So the big, fun irony of his executive order is that it violates federal law and it’s also unenforceable on its terms under the supremacy clause,” Fahey continued. “So, another stunt, but I don’t even think he recognizes really what the repercussions would be if it was actually played out.”
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