Mayor Johnson’s ICE executive order would compromise investigations of immigration agents, state’s attorney says

Source Chicago Tribune
Original Load Date Feb. 7, 2026, noon
Last Updated Feb. 7, 2026, noon
Original URL https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/states-attorney-ice-executive-order-compromise-investigations/

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In a memo sent to employees on Friday, the policy chief for Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said the city’s “ICE on notice” executive order compromises potential prosecutions of federal agents by politicizing the investigations. The executive order announced by Mayor Brandon Johns...