Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Asks Police to Surveil ICE, Report Them For Prosecution
Johnson wants Chicago’s police officers to focus their attention on documenting alleged crimes by ICE agents.
Chicago Police Department (CPD) personnel should focus their time and resources on documenting interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and referring them for prosecution, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson.
On Saturday, Mayor Johnson signed an executive order directing Chicago police officers to prepare reports on “any violation of state or local law by federal agents” and to ensure they preserve body-camera footage.
The city’s sworn law enforcement should also “seek to identify the federal supervisory officer on scene, attempt to verify the supervisory officer’s name and badge number, and record the credential verification using body-cameras,” according to the mayor’s office.
Johnson signed the “ICE on Notice” on Saturday.
“The lawlessness of Trump’s militarized immigration agents puts the lives and well-being of every Chicagoan in immediate danger,” Johnson claimed. “With today’s order, we are putting ICE on notice in our city.”
He said the Windy City “will not sit idly by while Trump floods federal agents into our communities and terrorizes our residents.”
Johnson’s call to report ICE agents for prosecution by the Cook County state’s attorney will face several challenges.
State’s Attorney Eileen Burke said she has not endorsed Johnson’s proposal, despite his assertion that her office helped draft the executive order.
“We do not provide legal approval of any matter until we’ve reviewed it,” she stated on X. “On such a critical issue, it’s important we get it right.”
Mayor Johnson’s statement is not true. The CCSAO did not receive the Executive Order until it was released to the public. We do not provide legal approval of any matter until we’ve reviewed it. On such a critical issue, it’s important we get it right. pic.twitter.com/xBp89wadYT
— State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke (@saeileenburke) January 31, 2026
Meanwhile, George Washington University law Professor Jonathan Turley offered his own criticism.
Turley, a Chicago native, said “it is highly unlikely that [ICE agents] could be liable for the increased enforcement of immigration laws.”
The law professor also mocked Johnson’s threat to have his police file “incident reports.”
“ICE officers are presumably fleeing en masse at the very threat of such CPD reports,” Turley wrote sarcastically on his commentary website.
Johnson’s statement of trust in his police officers is a reversal of his history of criticizing Chicago’s men and women in blue.
“Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities,” the mayor said last September.
He also called for defunding the police while serving as a Cook County commissioner in 2020, a claim he later tried to walk back while running for mayor in 2023.
Johnson is not the only mayor to urge police to document alleged ICE abuse. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson also recently unveiled a similar “set of actions,” aimed at the federal agents.
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After reading about this I am sorely afraid that Chicago might tip over.
It’s apparent that an IQ test isn’t prerequisite for holding the office of mayor.
This 💩 💀 isn’t qualified to be a speed bump at the local supermarket never mind mayor.
That was a different Johnson. Same surname and similar IQ, but different first names.
He needs to be “disappeared” to Gitmo for a little while to get it.
Actually, he needs his executive order to be publicly dissected and revealed for the illegal action that it is.
It’s not illegal, it’s just stupid. He can have CPD waste its time documenting all he likes, but prosecution is impossible.
Disappeared permanently.
What about black ice?
The dishonorable Chicago Mayor is itching and instigating a confrontation, and he won’t be satisfied until he starts a civil war
What he will be testing is how willing Chicago law enforcement (that he has previously threatened to abolish) would be to turn against fellow officers. What he will discover is that they will not be joining his side in the proposed rebellion, so he will have to rely solely on the usual mob of fanatics and paid agitators, assisted by his progressive allies in the media. They can generate mayhem, but simply don’t have the firepower to evict Federal troops on their own. Therefore a Civil War would be unwinable, and all he will do is create chaos. That might be too much for even the morons who elected him to tolerate.
SO he’s going to try to outdo Mpls? People better wake up or these problems will be in their apartment lobbies., front porches, yards –
etc.
For those supporting this behavior, what about your life, the lives of your children, relatives, friends, etc.? Why ask? Because sooner or later this stuff will spread to “your” turf.
The easy thing to do is for AG Bondi to let Johnson the Jack wagon know that if Chicago implements this the Feds will surveil him and everyone in his administration, film them and report the findings to the public in Chicago.
Yes. Sauce for the goose.
“Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities,” the mayor said last September.”
Shuh not the half-jive-ass way YOU do it.
but his *reasoning* would be sound on this one
as the CPD has nothing else to do
arrest criminals? nope
investigate violent crimes especially when whts as victims? nope
so hes got to keep them busy or they will start a mutiny and arrests johsons people for actually crimes
The “mayor” is a dunce-clown. How many innocent Chicagoans have been killed, raped, assaulted, etc., over decades, thanks to this mayor’s and his predecessors’ criminal-coddling, anti-law enforcement policies? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
This incompetent and corrupt POS won’t do anything about that disgraceful reality, but, he’s happy to grandstand and incite insurrection against the U.S. federal government and its agents.
Remember all those crying AntiSocial-ist Democrat leaders who were exhorting our authorities to disobey illegal orders? I do.
Another Culture Marxist clambering for a Civil War II
According to the Second City Cop blog, the Cook County State’s Attorney said her office had not reviewed Johnson’s order, despite his claim it had. Also, the president of the FOP called the order a “piece of toilet paper”.
SCC himself recommends declining any action under this order as “not part of the duties of a Chicago Police Officer”.
I sure wish SCC would go public again.
Oh so now you probably want to fund the police, Brandon? So you can have your own private goon squad?
It’s a Chicago tradition. The precious excuse for a mayor did just that: while singing the defund the cops song, she had a large, rotating group of them protect her and her wife’s home. And defended it to the sheep who try to live in Chicago.
Le plus ça change….
I know about Chicago traditions…I graduated from the public schools there. I just didn’t pass their purity test.
Beyond the immediate attempt to appease the leftist/wokiesta mob these sorts of policies in Chicago and other blue jurisdictions reveal the mindset of the leftists. They will have no qualms about using their power to send their armed agents against their enemies if given the opportunity to act with impunity. If y’all reside in one of these places which are openly pursuing a deliberate nullification strategy of Federal Law you really should consider bailing out before you end up on the menu.
There’s nothing wrong with having CPD following ICE around at a safe distance, and documenting everything they do. But if he thinks they can be prosecuted for violations of state or local law he’s got another think coming. The agents are effectively immune from all state and local law. Any state or local charges filed against them will be removed to federal court, where the US Attorney will immediately dismiss them.
A pointy headed turd.
The expression “nip it in the bud” comes to mind.
“The city’s sworn law enforcement should also “seek to identify the federal supervisory officer on scene, attempt to verify the supervisory officer’s name and badge number, and record the credential verification using body-cameras,” according to the mayor’s office.”
Interesting that they want to verify names of officers…but voters? Not so much.
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