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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION URGING CONGRESS NOT TO ALLOCATE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) AND THE U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION (CBP) GIVEN THE AGGRESSIVE AND DANGEROUS TACTICS BY FEDERAL AGENTS
WHEREAS, the Trump Administration's assault on communities in the name of immigration enforcement continues to erode constitutional rights and endanger residents; and
WHEREAS, in September 2025, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed Resolution #25-3451, denouncing the tactics of federal agents including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents (ICE) and calls for strong congressional oversight; and
WHEREAS, immigration authorities continue to employ increasingly dangerous tactics, such as engaging in unprovoked violence, pointing firearms at civilians, violently arresting civilians including U.S. citizens, and deploying chemical weapons without warning in residential areas, causing harm to schoolchildren and local law enforcement; and
WHEREAS, from September 2025 through January 30, 2026, immigration agents have shot twenty individuals, including three that resulted in their deaths: Silverio Villegas Gonz?lez, a father of two, in Franklin Park, IL; Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, in Minneapolis, MN; and Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen and federal employee who served as an intensive care nurse for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, also in Minneapolis, MN; and
WHEREAS, conditions in immigration detention facilities continue to deteriorate, with dangerous overcrowding and reports of substandard food, inadequate access to clean water, excessive use of solitary confinement, and medical neglect including an active measles outbreak at a detention center in Dilley, Texas that houses children; and
WHEREAS, since President Trump assumed office on January 20, 2025, an unprecedented thirty-eight individuals have died in the custody of ICE, and an average of 170 children a day have been...
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