They just never learn, eh?
An Illinois commission tasked with investigating the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation in the state last year said it had identified multiple incidents in which federal agents should be investigated for misconduct and potential criminal charges.
Members of the Illinois Accountability Commission, an independent board of nine members that includes a former federal judge and attorneys appointed by Gov. JB Pritzker, recommended in a final report Thursday that law enforcement agencies and prosecutors investigate the conduct of federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration deportation operation the Trump administration launched last year in Chicago.
“Our communities and our people were subjected to an unprecedented campaign of harassment, intimidation and brutality,” Pritzker, who created the commission in response to Operation Midway Blitz, said at a news conference Thursday. “They deployed tear gas and smoke grenades against peaceful protesters and peaceful crowds and in peaceful neighborhoods. They committed flagrant and egregious abuses of power and force that went unchecked.”
I wonder how much this investigation will cost, with most of the money disappearing into people’s pockets? Because absolutely nothing will come of it
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the commission’s findings or the specific incidents detailed in it. A DHS spokesperson said in a statement in response to two hearings the commission held this week, “Governor Pritzker continues to refuse to do his job to protect his citizens from illegal alien crime and instead chooses to smear our law enforcement.”
Abigail ?Jackson, a spokesperson for the White House, told NBC News in response to the report, “If JB Pritzker spent this much time and energy addressing crime and supporting the arrest of criminal illegal aliens instead of providing them with sanctuary, Illinois residents would be much safer.”
If he did his unhinged base would revolt.
Immigration street sweeps led to more ‘collateral’ arrests of noncriminals
A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “collateral,” a type of arrest and detention that’s been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights.
Public outrage and lawsuits over the arrests may be tamping down the large-scale sweeps that foster them, but tens of thousands were arrested this way between August and early March.
But collateral arrests can result from street sweeps and raids in which a person is singled out for questioning based on appearance or proximity to someone wanted on a warrant. That person could be taken into custody if agents think they may be subject to deportation and also likely to flee if released.
About 70% of the collateral arrests were for people with immigration-related crimes or violations alone, compared with 41% for arrests with warrants. Less than 2% of those with collateral arrests were convicted of a violent crime, one-third the rate of other arrests, and only 18% were convicted of any crime, compared with 33% for other arrests.
See, now, if the wackos like Pritzker would simply hand over the illegals who committed crime these big operations would be unnecessary, and most of those collateral arrests wouldn’t have happened. Sure, they all need to go, but, immigration agents wouldn’t be grabbing collaterals in large numbers with the criminals.
