
Pritzker Forms State Commission to Document Federal Abuses of Power
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A new state commission was formed in response to alleged violations during immigration raids.
A new state commission will document what Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is calling "countless acts of harassment, intimidation, brutality and abuses of power" by federal immigration agents.
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Pritzker Forms State Commission to Document Federal Abuses of Power
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A new state commission will document what Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is calling "countless acts of harassment, intimidation, brutality and abuses of power" by federal immigration agents.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> First, a new state commission will document what Governor JB Pritzker is calling countless acts of harassment, intimidation, brutality and abuses of power by federal immigration agents.
>> It comes as immigration raids are ramping up across the Chicago area, including for the second straight day in Little Village.
Here's the governor.
Just before he signed the executive order forming the Illinois Accountability Commission.
Donald Trump.
>> Stephen Miller, Christine O Tom Home and Greg Bovino have failed their oaths of office and allowed agents under their command to act unconscionably under the color of law.
They have given the impression that their actions are immune from investigation or accountability.
They are not.
Donald Trump is counting on your silence.
We are counting on your courage.
>> Our Heather Sharon joins us now with more about the latest in the Trump administration's operation Midway Blitz.
Heather, what exactly will this new commission do?
What Pritzker left?
No doubt this morning that he believes that federal agents have brazenly defied the law out on the streets of Chicago and that the Trump administration has neither the time nor the inclination to hold them accountable for those offenses.
So he said this new commission will do that in part by taking in video taken by the people of Chicago on the streets, preserving it investigating it in the hopes that one day after Trump has left office, there can be legal proceedings based on this evidence to hold these agents and their supervisors accountable for the second day in a row federal agents have conducted aggressive immigration raids in Little Village, which is, of course, the heart of Chicago's Mexican American community.
Do we know how many people were detained?
We don't.
There are reports that a 16 year-old student at Benito Juarez High School was taken.
He is a U.S.
citizen.
However, the federal government has been very closed mouth about the number of people detained in this week.
These raids there were videos of somebody detained at a bus stop, which is really ratcheting up the level of concern in Little Village and Pilsen another Chicago neighborhood making simply going to work or school.
Just very, very scary proposition.
So a Chicago Alderman Byron Lopez whose ward includes Pilsen.
He was in the middle of a tense situation this morning.
What did he tell you happened?
He said federal agents deployed tear gas against the crowd that gathered to protest the agents conducting these raids without warning.
Now he said that he didn't hear anybody say anything about an order to disperse or that tear gas was imminent.
That's what is required by a federal judge's order.
Today marks the 5th time since the beginning of the month that federal agents deployed tear gas.
Another chemical agents against crowds of protesters in Chicago, federal judge ordered federal agents to stop using tear gas against crowds of protestors unless they posed a threat against the agents.
As you as you mentioned, was that order violated today?
Well, the plaintiffs in that case, which includes the Chicago Headline Club and other media organizations say it was and just less than an hour ago, they told the judge that that was, in fact what happened and they included a picture of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino himself firing a can of tear gas at the crowd.
They are asking the judge to take action immediately saying they believe the federal government is, quote, it simply ignoring her order, OK?
So these raids are happening, of course, as we're waiting to see whether or not the U.S.
Supreme Court will allow President Trump to deploy 300 Illinois National Guard members.
400.
>> Members from the Texas National Guard to Chicago.
What is the latest on that case?
We are all waiting for the Supreme Court to act.
They could act.
>> Today they could act tomorrow.
They could act next week.
Now the temporary restraining order preventing that troop deployment will remain in effect indefinitely.
Now on the order of Judge Perry, however, that order could be overturned by a decision of the Supreme Court or it could be upheld or it could be a pilot who we will all wait to see what the Supreme Court decides.
Heather.
Sharon, thank you so much.
Thanks.
Brandis.
And you can read Heather's coverage on the new commission and today's Immigration Action in Little Village on our website.
>> It is all at W T Tw Dot com slash news.
And we're back with more right after this.
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