The Will County Board will postpone a vote on a resolution addressing the ongoing immigration debate just days after a board committee voted in favor of it along party lines.

The board’s Executive Committee, which is made of board leadership and committee chairs, said Thursday the resolution needed to be reworked and postponed it indefinitely. The board will not take up the immigration resolution at its regularly scheduled meeting Oct. 16, the Executive Committee decided.

Legislative Committee Chair Destinee Ortiz, a Romeoville Democrat, introduced the resolution Tuesday to declare Will County’s commitment to ensure communities can live and work without fear.

Ortiz said the resolution was in response to aggressive enforcement actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that c

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