October 26, 2025
Lightfoot and a bunch of attorneys have put collectively a nonprofit group named ‘The ICE Accountability Venture.’
To fight the alleged unlawful actions of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers within the rounding up of immigrants in Chicago, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a bunch of attorneys have put collectively a nonprofit group named “The ICE Accountability Venture.”
In response to Fox 32 Chicago, Lightfoot states that this was arrange as an internet site and “central repository” so the group can observe what could also be deemed unlawful strikes made by ICE brokers of their pursuit of individuals they declare are within the nation illegally. The transfer has been made throughout the federal government’s deliberate “Operation Halfway Blitz.”
“We need to create a centralized archive of all of the purported legal actions of ICE and CBP brokers,” Lightfoot stated. “We need to create a portal the place what’s occurring in actual time could be centralized and put out for the general public to view.”
The group plans to “unmask” unidentified brokers working for ICE, however not reveal private data comparable to names or identities. They’ll determine bodily traits, clothes, and autos of the folks concerned within the alleged unlawful actions. The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) has said that there was a 1,000% improve in threats in opposition to federal brokers.
“They’re on public property out within the open,” she stated. “We have now an absolute proper underneath our structure to doc what’s occurring.”
Nevertheless, after Lightfoot appeared on “The Chicago Report,” Fox Information reported that Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi issued a risk in direction of the previous Chicago mayor.
“That is the primary time I’ve seen the Lori Lightfoot video was simply now in your present,” she said whereas showing on Fox Information. “She can be getting a letter from us tomorrow to protect something she has executed as effectively, to guarantee that she’s not violating the regulation. It seems she is. You can’t disclose the identification of a federal agent — the place they dwell, something that might hurt them.”
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