The Illinois bill, sent to anti-Trump Gov. JB Pritzker for signing, not only seeks to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations inside courthouses but establishes a 1,000-foot ''buffer zone'' outside of buildings, Capitol News Illinois reported.
The bill also would allow Illinois residents to bring lawsuits against agents whom they allege violated their constitutional rights, including for due process and unreasonable search and seizures.
''Our communities have been living in fear — fear of being separated from their children, fear of being taken from their homes, fear of simply existing,'' State Sen. Celina Villaneuva, a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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one of its top sponsors, Democratic Senate President Don Harmon, is questioning whether it can withstand a court challenge, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported Friday.
''It's not just about the constitutionality of the law, which I think is sound, but it's the reality that the courts are stacked against us,'' Harmon told the wire service. ''The federal government can try to remove it from state courts to federal courts. They can try to substitute the government itself for the individual defendants, but that's not a reason not to try.''
The legislative package was passed in response to the federal immigration enforcement campaign in Illinois and Indiana known as ''Operation Midway Blitz.''
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