Chicago police instructs its officers not to cooperate with DHS, leaked memo shows, after mayor Lori Lightfoot condemned ICE as the 'political arm of the Trump campaign'By RALPH R. ORTEGA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 30 September 2019
Police in Chicago have been instructed not to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security, a leaked memo has revealed.
Cops in the so-called 'Sanctuary City' have been told to refuse to assist Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents on an immigration arrest, unless they have prior approval from a supervisor.
The new marching orders to the CPD were 'effective immediately,' according to an internal memo that addressed how the city's cops were to work with ICE agents, who work under the DHS.
Instead of immediately providing support to ICE, officers must now wait for a supervisor to show up at the scene to make a call, according to the email, reports Fox News.
'If the request is to assist with an immigration arrest or detention, CPD personnel will leave the scene as directed by the CPD supervisor,' according to the memo.
The CPD confirmed the memo's authenticity to Fox News. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office did not respond to a request for comment.
The motivation behind the new guidelines was not immediately clear.
However, the mayor -- a day before the email went out -- blasted the DHS at an immigration rally, questioning its credibility and calling it 'the political arm of the Trump campaign,' in a swipe at the president and his re-election campaign's approach to enforcing immigration laws.
She insisted that ICE will not have access to police databases, nor have police cooperation on immigration arrests.
'We will never, ever succumb to the racist, xenophobic rhetoric of ICE,' Lightfoot said at the rally, which was held to upstage Robert Guadian, ICE's newly appointed Chicago field office director, who was having his own news conference, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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