'Not true': Chicago Mayor Johnson's ICE order has his own prosecutors up in arms
Cook County State's Attorney's Office says it didn't collaborate with Johnson on anti-ICE executive order.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) touted big plans to go after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. However, the city's top prosecutor is calling out Johnson's anti-ICE executive order as a "wholly inappropriate" disaster, while alleging the mayor's claims of collaboration are "not true."
In late January, Johnson signed the "ICE on Notice" executive order, which directed the Chicago Police Department to investigate and document any alleged illegal activity by federal agents, then refer that evidence to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office for potential prosecution.
'Mayor Johnson's statement is not true.'
Johnson claimed that Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke's office was "in complete support of this executive order."
"Our office worked closely in collaboration with the state's attorney's office to ensure that this executive order will have the ability to do exactly what it is designed to do," the mayor told reporters in January.
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