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25-3768
| 2 | | | Committee Minutes | COMMITTEE MINUTES
Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 7/23/2025 | | |
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25-3451
| 1 | | DENOUNCING CALLOUS AND DECEPTIVE TACTICS OF FEDERAL AGENTS INCLUDING U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS IN REGARD TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT | Resolution | PROPOSED RESOLUTION
DENOUNCING CALLOUS AND DECEPTIVE TACTICS OF FEDERAL AGENTS INCLUDING U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS IN REGARD TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
WHEREAS, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, unifying separate federal departments into one Cabinet-level department that oversees a range of topics including immigration, border security, trafficking, and terrorism; and
WHEREAS, Homeland Security established Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2003 with the mission of protecting national security and enforcing our borders; and
WHEREAS, ICE has more than 20,000 law enforcement officers in more than 400 offices in the United States and around the world, counts with an annual budget of $8 billion, and whose work is carried out by units such as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO); and
WHEREAS, under the Trump Administration, ICE agents have increasingly used deceptive tactics and in some cases, brutal force to separate and intimidate immigrant | | |
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25-3489
| 1 | | REAFFIRMING COOK COUNTY’S SUPPORT FOR YOUTH’S ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE AFTER UNITED STATES V. SKRMETTI | Resolution | PROPOSED RESOLUTION
REAFFIRMING COOK COUNTY’S SUPPORT FOR YOUTH’S ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE AFTER UNITED STATES V. SKRMETTI
WHEREAS, gender dysphoria is a feeling of distress that describes when a person's gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth and is a diagnosis included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) published by the American Psychiatric Association; and
WHEREAS, the diagnosis was created to help people with gender dysphoria get access to the healthcare and treatment that they need; and
WHEREAS, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), notes that gender identity can run anywhere along a continuum that includes man, woman, a combination of those, neither of those, and/or is fluid; and
WHEREAS, for the majority of transgender and/or nonbinary individuals, gender dysphoria is only alleviated through medical interventions; and
WHEREAS, gender-affirming care, as defined by the World Health Organization, encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions “designed to support | | |
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