The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights held a statehouse lobby day last week to push its far-reaching veto session agenda.

Included in the coalition’s agenda are things like putting strict limits on executing civil immigration warrants in state courthouses. That would likely be challenged in court, but there is some common law precedent going back to the English court system, so we’ll see. Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans recently ordered that no civil arrests could be enforced at county courthouses.

Immigration police agents generally rely on civil arrest warrants. Illinois law requires judicial warrants before state and local police agencies can cooperate. A federal judge recently clamped down on the use of blank immigration civil warrants which are then filled in

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