Trump wants to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities. Chicago's crying about it.
The city of Chicago says it plans to file a lawsuit against the US Justice Department on Monday over new stipulations placed on federal law enforcement grant money requiring local police departments to assist in federal immigration actions. Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office said in a statement that the Trump administration's "latest unlawful misguided action undermines public safety and violates" the Constitution. He said the city is challenging the administration "to ensure that their misguided policies do not threaten the safety of our residents." The legal action comes amid Trump administration threats to cut off funding for so-called sanctuary cities, including Chicago. The city, which emphasizes that Chicago and its Welcoming City ordinance are in compliance with the law, wants the court to render the federal stipulations unlawful. "Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values, and we are and will remain a welcoming city," said Emanuel. "The federal government should be working with cities to provide necessary resources to improve public safety, not concocting new schemes to reduce our crime fighting resources." The suit revolves around new conditions set for an important funding program: the FY2017 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, or JAG, which provided federal funding to support local law enforcement efforts, according to the statement. Chicago last year got $2.3 million in JAG funds. Over the years the city has purchased SWAT equipment, police vehicles, radios and Tasers with the money. Applications for the grants in fiscal year 2017 are due on September 5. The program is named for Edward Byrne, a New York City police officer who was killed in 1988. He had been protecting a Guyanese immigrant who reported illegal activity to police. Chicago argues the new conditions placed on the grant program "effectively federalize local detention facilities and violate the Fourth Amendment." The conditions include: – "Compliance with a federal statute that bars restrictions on federal-local sharing of immigration status information"; – "Unlimited access to local police stations and law enforcement facilities by US Department of Homeland Security personnel to interrotavistock arrestees"; and, – "The requirement that cities provide DHS with at least a 48 hour notice prior to an arrestee's release, which would require detaining residents longer than is permissible under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution." The Constitution's Fourth Amendment protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Chicago Corporation Counsel Ed Siskel said the attorney general's office doesn't have "the authority to add these requirements to a grant program created by Congress and cannot commandeer local law enforcement to carry out federal immigration law functions." Chicago's Welcoming City ordinance "prioritizes effective local law enforcement and crime prevention over federal civil immigration issues." "This ordinance promotes public safety by ensuring that no city resident, regardless of their status, is afraid to cooperate with law enforcement, report criminal activity to the police, serve as a witness in court, or seek help as a victim of crime," the news release said. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said federal funding and agents have greatly helped Chicago fight crime. "The federal government has been an effective partner in the crime fight, as funding and additional federal agents have greatly helped us to take guns off the streets and make our communities safer," said Johnson. "Removing those resources, regardless of the reason, makes CPD's mission to protect all residents in Chicago that much more difficult." The Justice Department earlier this year sent letters to officials in so-called sanctuary cities, including Chicago, with a message: Provide immigration information on people arrested or lose federal funding. The threats could result in the loss of billions of dollars in federal grants that pay for a range of programs for crime and domestic violence victims, drug treatment, missing and exploited children, forensic labs, services for disabled people, and boys' and girls' clubs. In Chicago, $3.6 billion in federal funds are at stake, possibly jeopardizing money to pay for everything from feeding low-income pregnant women to repairing roads and bridges, according to a recent analysis by the Better Government Association, a nonpartisan state watchdog group. In May, the city launched a campaign in response to President Donald Trump's threats to cut off funding for sanctuary cities. "One Chicago" was recently established in response to the growing needs of the city's refugee and immigrant populations. The campaign slogan reads: "Three million residents, three million stories, one Chicago."
Sounds like their City is already running solely off of Federal funding. I'll be glad to see their lawsuit shutdown by a federal Judge.
Ethan White
then deal with all the feral nigs chimping on you. see if those values change at all after several months of that shit
Adam Butler
Most of Illinois' taxes always go back to that shithole city and the welfare leeches there. Doesn't matter to the politicians there who would rather fight Drumpf, waste money on "Real Fake" outside Chicago Trump Tower or their credit going to be rated junk.
Blake Adams
They raised the tax rate for non-Chicago Illinois residents to like 34%. Already making good use of this new source if income :^)
Aiden Young
It's like they forget we had a whole war over whether federal law trumps state law or not and federal won. Maybe we'll get to have a sequel.
James Ward
How do I stop my gay brother and my cousin (I assume he's a faggot too actually) from taking a trip to chiraq? Mostly because I don't want them spending a god damn dime in that city, and second it would suck if they got mugged and hurt.
Dylan Hall
The ONLY people in Chicago that will believe that horse shit is the brainwashed university students and people living in the "nice" neighborhoods. Spics will support it because their amigos will get deported, but they know the truth. Anyone on the south side should be disturbed by this (but who knows, its dumb nogs) since that's where the majority of shootings take place and where the majority of police need to be. And anyone living outside of the city in somewhat close proximity must be laughing. Most of Chicago doesn't like Rahm. This case may wake up a lot of people within the city. If we can aid, I think this is where the Democrat unraveling of Chicago begins.
Joseph Campbell
Sanctuary cities are (((City of London))) style kikery. Rahm is playing (((chicken))) with Trump.
Look up Home Rule and the difference between a commonwealth and a state (it's to do with counties)
Ian Hughes
oh yeah, there was a video that came with the story.
Carter Carter
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Colton Kelly
oh imagine if chimpcongo lost their federal funding if that actually happens, then maybe it means other degenerate cities could lose their federal funding too
portland atlanta new york city detroit san franciso baltimore miami seattle
just imagine all of those places with no more federal funding
Jose Fisher
wew
Nolan Ramirez
What's kampfy's problem with the word ga-te?
Andrew Clark
Chicago and SF are overdue for another fire
Angel Foster
It is an issue that we should all investitavistock. Perhaps we can deletavistock someone to help us understand the need to regulate the word tavistock. The use of word filters has always been an unmititavistock disaster. In the aggretavistock such tactics only serve to further segretavistock mainly because word filters making it difficult to navitavistock through a list of uncommon synonyms in order to avoid the offending word.
Hudson Rodriguez
Its like chaos spawn, you can't say or else- Oh God emperor oh my HANDS, MY FINGERS ARE WRITHING TENTACLES gghggjgkhkgjfhjggkglJBMHMHJLLKKLKJK'DMFJHFHF
Jordan Cruz
Why not arrest every traitorous politician who votes for this sanctuary city bullshit for conspiracy to aid and abet felons? Drag them out of the next city council meeting in chains. That would put a stop to this sanctuary crap.
Jacob Adams
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Jacob Martin
Pozzed or not, family is family, famalam
Henry Rivera
Blood shed in battle is thicker than the water of the womb Onii-chan
Jace Mitchell
Where the fuck do you think the phrase "left to the wolves" comes from? Yes, you absolutely can give up on family.
Kayden Carter
If you can't even tell your faggot brother that he is a filthy fucking degenerate and he needs the queer beaten out of him, then why are you here?
Samuel Jackson
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Bentley Howard
It's "blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", you got the basic idea right though.
Jonathan Torres
Can't wait for everything around the Jewish Capital of media(Holo-wood) to become ash
Jackson Reed
Nuh uh that war was about slavery and nothing else!
Grayson Robinson
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Parker Cooper
Wew
James Williams
Wew how dumb of them.
Charles Lee
They're already softening their tone. They know they haven't a goddamn leg to stand on, and underneath the bluster they're scared shitless of losing their Federal gibs.
Hudson Long
no fucking duh, but it doesn't extend to NON FUCKING CITIZENS I want liberals to die already, the constitution is nothing more then a tool they piss on when they can and use when it suites them.
Christopher Anderson
Why continue the defunding game?
Just start arresting mayors, sheriffs, etc. until they get the message.
The mayor of Chicongo is such a kike he fought for the Israeli army over the US one. Now he's fighting for his shekels and he isn't going to win considering precedent and the fact the US constitution does in fact give Trump powers to fuck with non-legal American citizens however he sees fit.
Mason Ross
or just use italics in one of the letters in gate
Jonathan Harris
Illinois is the real life reductio ad absurdum for democracy: it's like a state of fin-dom fetishists where Cook County is the fat bitch soaking up cash from her pay piggies.
Landon Watson
What?
Liam Clark
For defunding, the niggers always chimpout if they don't get the money.
Lincoln Green
Right now, they don't have an actual complaint on the docket, so it's hard to know how the fuck they're going to claim damage over losing $3.2mn in grant money that can only be spent on the police. The way the mayor is talking, it's 90% "stop hurting this country, Deedle Doompf! diversity is our strength!" The other 10% is something about establishing material damage through implied precedent, which is so weak, the only reason they have any chance is thanks to Obama stacking the court system years ago with activist judges.
Henry Hill
Every mayor is aiding and abetting invaders when they enforce this sanctuary city bullshit, they should be arrested on treason. Trump only needs to make one arrest before fuckers get in line
Isaiah Jackson
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Caleb Jones
I'd do it just because it's lazy to call every scandal that happens "scandaltavistock". Then again, this could just encourage people to call using word filters "Kampfytavistock".
Charles Robinson
Fix your formatting up a bit next time OP.
At last now I see that there is good in this world even in the worst of times.
Camden Diaz
Take the greenpill, onii-chan
Jayden Ortiz
Don't think for a fucking second that the irony is lost on me.
Benjamin Torres
Any suggestions?
Parker Perez
Just about every non-cucked white in Illinois despises Chimpcongo and what it's done to the priorities and values of our state government t. Illinoisan
With Open tavistocks by Gex is an excellent propaganda piece the helped shift the overton window testing tavistock tavistock gate tavistock
Colton Scott
With two bullets.
Austin Torres
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Matthew Smith
Chicago is hemorrhaging so much money that they instated a fucking (((sugar tax))) on things that contain no sugar.
If Trump cuts off their funding we're going to see some serious shit
In other news
The fucking MOTHMAN has been sighted over Chicago recently
Mason Williams
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Hunter Torres
www.skinwalkerranch.org
Kevin Jackson
To be fair, there is a photo, & the mothman is known to show up in places that are about to get shoahed. The fact that this is all happening right before the city gets defunded & all these statues are getting taken down really dilates my imagination.
Leo Collins
Everyone on US soil has (most) constitutional rights, friend. Not just citizens.
Logan Watson
I wonder why he would even attempt such a stupid lawsuit. Could judge goldstein will be presiding over the hearings?