“Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values,” Emanuel said.
According to WGN:
City officials said complying with the new requirements, to get federal money, would violate Chicago’s “Welcoming City” ordinance — a law which prohibits the CPD from giving federal officials access to people in custody, bans ICE agents from police facilities for interrogations and bars cops from sharing immigration status information.
Mayor Emanuel says linking the new requirements to the grant money is unconstitutional and a form of coercing cities into complying with the administration’s immigration plans.
Notice how they changed their branding from a “sanctuary city” to a “welcoming city.”
Obama crony Emanuel has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) claiming that “it’s illegal for the government to withhold public safety grant money from sanctuary cities,” WGN News is reporting.
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that in order to receive federal funding, cities will now be required to give ICE access to police facilities, provide immigration officers 48 hours’ notice of a criminal alien’s release, and share immigration information with federal officials.