The Elgin City Council is taking a symbolic stand against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, approving a resolution demanding laws be passed prohibiting ICE agents from wearing masks.

Proposed by council members Anthony Ortiz and Diana Alfaro, the measure was backed by the council and will be formally approved at a future meeting.

The resolution has no legal standing and it cannot be enforced locally because the city has no governance over federal government actions.

ICE’s actions are “terrorizing our citizens, in my opinion” and causing division in the country, Ortiz said at the Monday night council meeting.

“It’s a really bad situation in our nation right now with what these federal agents are doing. They are only doing it because the person at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is giving

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