The state of Illinois and city of Chicago filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump Administration on Monday, alleging federal agents carried out an illegal “occupation,” during which they utilized violent and unlawful tactics in violation of the Tenth Amendment and federal statutes.
The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, alleged both Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made arrests without warrants, randomly questioned hundreds of people and used chemical weapons on law-abiding residents during the immigration enforcement effort “Operation Midway Blitz.”
“Though Defendants describe this assault as ‘immigration enforcement,’ the reality is that uniformed, military-trained personnel, carrying semi-automatic firearms and military-grade weaponry, have rampaged for months through Chicago and surrounding areas, lawlessly stopping, interrogating, and arresting residents, and attacking them with chemical weapons,” the court complaint stated, in part.
State officials repeatedly referred to the deployment of federal agents as an “occupation,” which they said was “intended to coerce Plaintiffs to abandon their policies, which value and respect the State’s immigrants, and devote their resources to further the immigration policies of the current administration.”
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