It’s also part of a broader pattern of immigration crackdowns across the nation: The lawsuit from Illinois arrives the same day that the State of Minnesota sued the administration to stop an enforcement surge by ICE following the fatal shooting of Renee Good. First, an “angered” Trump threatened to “unleash a military assault” on Chicago, the lawsuit notes, by posting an AI-generated image of himself dressed as a military officer from the film “Apocalypse Now.” Trump rebranded it “Chipocalypse Now,” in reference to Chicago, and wrote in the post: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning” and “Chicago is about to learn why it’s called the Department of WAR.” Pritzker and the State of Illinois have asked a judge to issue an order that would stop Customs and Border Protection agents from conducting civil immigration enforcement in the state as well as an order that halts what it describes as the Trump administration’s roving patrols, nonconsensual biometric scans, warrantless arrests, teargassing of citizens, trespassing on private property and hiding of identifying information like license plates on official vehicles.
Author: Brandi Buchman
Published at: 2026-01-12 23:55:51
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