Justice
The DOJ's Perverse Response to Chicago's Sanctuary City Lawsuit
When Chicago announced it would sue over its sanctuary city crackdown, Justice Department officials launched a Trump-style attack in response.
On Monday, Chicago filed a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging that the Department of Justice’s latest and most powerful attack on so-called sanctuary cities is unconstitutional. “Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced in a press conference.
In response, the Department of Justice shamed the mayor, blaming the city’s crime problems on its sanctuary policies, which divorce local policing from federal immigration enforcement. Via the Chicago Sun Times, Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores had this Trump-style attack: