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| Chicago-area mayor, congressional candidate brags about lengths he's gone to flummox ICE |
| 2025-09-13 |
| [FoxNews] Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss boasted of warning residents about ICE and cutting traffic camera feeds A Chicago-area mayor and congressional candidate stood by his actions to thwart even passive cooperation with federal immigration enforcement operations as DHS launches "Operation Midway Blitz" in the area. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, a Democrat who is running to succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., in 2026, told CNN he is "in the dark" as to DHS’ plans for Illinois in the coming days. He also said he informed residents Tuesday about his concerns and what actions he took in response. "The Trump administration wants to keep us guessing, wants to use our uncertainty to keep us afraid, but the reason that we communicated with our residents this morning is that I got information from a senior state official last night indicating that they had good intel that it was likely that ICE would be coming to Evanston in today and in the coming days." Biss said he did so for residents to "protect themselves" from federal law enforcement. "We've been doing everything we can to protect our residents from before Donald Trump took office, passing strong sanctuary laws to make sure police are not cooperating with federal civil immigration enforcement," he added. Biss explained he ordered Evanston’s license plate cameras turned off after learning the data was being shared. Unlike red light cameras, which issue tickets, license plate readers are often used to collect and store vehicle data for later retrieval. In some cases, state or federal law enforcement might use the data to track a suspect’s known vehicle, finding that it navigated a certain interchange at a specific time. In a separate video Biss recorded while leaving a Mexican Independence Day parade in Chicago, he said he used his "rapid response training to keep an eye out for potential ICE personnel" during the event and "if possible, keep people safe from attack." "My responsibility was to see which masked individual might, with no warning, just grab people off the street [or] which uniformed personnel might, without warning, attack our people." "We're going to remember for a long time what we did in this moment. Let's do the right thing," Biss said. Separately, Biss added that authoritarianism is not creeping into society, it "is here." "History will remember how Chicago stood in solidarity in this moment. Stay strong, stay safe," he said. Related: Evanston: 2025-08-20 JB Pritzker's mandated 'mental health screenings' for school children is a data grab, not compassion Evanston: 2025-02-11 Former Lead Recovery Consultants at Hagerty, Firm Hired by Bass, Pleaded Guilty to Stealing Disaster Funds Evanston: 2025-02-09 Karen Bass Awards Rebuilding Contract to Hagerty Behind Closed Doors |
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