In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove directed federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of enforcement of immigration laws under President Donald Trump's administration.
Illinois will joins several other states to stand against President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement plan.
In the face of a Trump administration directive to investigate state and local officials who don’t toe the line on the president’s orders on immigration, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said they will stand up for law-abiding residents regardless of their legal status.
A Chicago Sun-Times review found 43 of the 53 defendants from Illinois had been convicted and sentenced. President Donald Trump pardoned or ordered cases dropped against everyone charged in the insurrection.
The BriefFederal prosecutors are directed to investigate state and local officials who impede immigration laws.The memo outlines a shift in priorities, emphasizing aggressive prosecution of immigration violations.
A Republican state senator says migrant sanctuary policies enacted by Illinois Democrats are “getting people killed.” Illinois law prohibits local and state law enforcement from communicating or assisting federal immigration authorities.
The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions over a period of several years.
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, LaDonna Prince decided to move her abortion clinic from Indiana, where abortion became banned, to a town just over the border in Illinois, where abortion is legal.
President Donald Trump is using executive orders to roll back rights for immigrants. Here is what to know about Illinois’ and Chicago’s immigration policies and how they relate to schools.
Accusations of weaponizing the U.S. Department of Justice were hurled by Republicans and Democrats during the confirmation hearing of Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi Wednesday.
Justice Department alleges RealPage and several of its clients were involved in an “anticompetitive algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters."