Attorders -General who represent 23 states have joined forces in contrast to Chicago and Illinois “Sanctuary” laws that prohibit local law enforcement officers to help enforce federal immigration statutes.
In an amicus assignment submitted to support the federal government’s lawsuit against the city and the state, the group argues that Illinois and Chicago cause their states to harm the enforcement of immigration legislation.
“The national immigration crisis has shown ‘every state … a border state’,” wrote lawyer -general T. Elliot Gaiser in a letter signed by 22 colleagues, including attorney -general from Indiana, Missouri and Iowa.
“Rogue states and cities cannot threesome the ‘political will’ of the nation about illegal immigration, expressed twice, through the laws of the congress and the president’s policy,” wrote Gaiser, who argued that states “have no right to violate federal immigration statutes.”
“The defendants ignored that the principle of federalism when they implemented laws that order local law enforcement to hinder federal immigration agents from gaining access to illegal alien beings in state or local detention,” the letter continues.
“These access bans violate the supremacy clause twice. They immediately conflict with a federal status that imposes criminal fines on a person who ‘hides, houses or protects for detection’ an illegal
Alien ‘at every place’, ‘wrote Gaiser,’ and they run Afoul of intergovernmental immunity by controlling the activities of federal immigration agents. ‘
The group argues that when Chicago and Illinois “try to frustrate federal immigration laws that protect all states, the result is damage to extend far beyond their borders.”
They claim that the “damage” extends to the states that represent the signatories, including costs for health care, education, housing and crime.
“In 2018, more than 40% of federal criminal persecutions against illegal foreigners and illegal alien beings were good for about a quarter of all persecutions of the federal drug offenses,” the group claims. “From January 2024, more than 617,000 alien beings in the US had about immigration and the non-detailed docking of the adjusted enforcement of criminal convictions or charges against them.”
But the policy of Chicago and Illinois “require law enforcement officers to shield the worst offenders – illegal alien beings locked up on criminal convictions or charges.”
With reference to a statement from the Philadelphia convention from 1787, “” Rule for naturalization in each state should be the same “, the group claims” many states that are still (rightly) worried that so-called sanctuary policy in a minority of states will stimulate the constitution of the constitution itself.
While “States can opt for joint federal condition [law] Enforcement schemes, “argues the group,” determining legislation that aggressively interferes with the enforcement of the congress’s immigration laws is not on the options menu. “
With reference to the supremacy clause of the US Constitution, the group claim that states are excluded from “interfering or controlling the activities of the federal government.”
“Choosing the federal government for unfavorable treatment” is also prohibited, they argued.
Naast Ohio, Indiana en Missouri, werd de opdracht ondertekend door Attorneys -generaal uit Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Cook County record was the first to report on the Amicus letter.
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