Last Saturday, anti-deportation activists in Chicago took their protest to a dangerous new level: using their cars to ram and box in Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles. Even more troubling, when the agents called the Chicago Police Department for assistance, they discovered that the chief of patrol had issued a stand-down order, according to CPD dispatch recordings and internal communications.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to the incident by signing an executive order creating “ICE-free zones” from which federal immigration agents would be prohibited from operating. The Marxist mayor said he was acting to “rein in this out-of-control administration. This means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.

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