Mayor Lori Lightfoot Calls the Chicago ACT Ordinance "The Only Moral Choice"

[ancianita]

In 1985, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington signed an executive order
a) ending the city's practice of asking job and license applicants about their U.S. citizenship, and
b) halting cooperation by city agencies with federal immigration authorities.

In 2016, Chicago's City Council approved an amendment to Rahm Emanuel’s original 2013 Welcoming City ordinance, which now limits interactions police and other city employees have with ICE.

As part of the ordinance, local officials are not allowed to ask a person’s immigration status or turn undocumented immigrants over to federal agents.

Trump’s administration has repeatedly slammed Chicago and other “sanctuary cities” for their reluctance to cooperate with ICE, and threatened to yank federal funds. Those actions were ultimately blocked by a federal judge.

Chicago's newest amendment to Mayor Washington's and Emanuel's Welcoming City ordinance -- the Chicago ACT Ordinance -- provides additional immigrant protections by barring city officials from
a) threatening to reveal the immigration status of a person to federal officials
b) verbally abusing immigrants based on their race, citizenship, or country of origin.

ICE agents aren’t allowed to enter private property without a judicial warrant. People also have the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney and may refuse to sign paperwork given by an ICE agent, she said.

Chicago's history as a sanctuary city.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-sanctuary-history-htmlstory.html

[MichMan]

1. Chicago HR doesn't need to submit the required I-9 verification for employment ?

How do they verify someone is eligible to work in the US? I was pretty certain that was a federal requirement since 1986.

[ancianita]

3. How is I-9 relevant to all forms of employment? It isn't. I'm pretty sure immigrants work at

jobs that are cash only, or some other arrangement. There are millions of alternative forms of employment that don't require reporting to the feds.

I'm not a fed or with ICE, so that's my best guess.

[MichMan]

4. The OP was regarding the City of Chicago government

Do they pay their employees in cash under the table? I seriously doubt that they do.

[ancianita]

5. The City of Chicago does its paperwork. The city ordinance is about any immigrants living in

in Chicago.

If you think this ordinance represents some conflict of interest between a city government's hiring practices and those of other employers in the city, you're probably misunderstanding the spirit of the law in the ordinance about due process protection for anyone living in Chicago from federal immigration practices and policies.

If you think a federal case can be made out of this, please proceed.

[MichMan]

6. Just trying to understand the very first sentence in the OP

" In 1985, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington signed an executive order
a) ending the city's practice of asking job and license applicants about their U.S. citizenship, and
b) halting cooperation by city agencies with federal immigration authorities."

I asked how they submit an I-9, if the city isn't allowed to ask job applicants about their citizenship status, given that is a question on the form.

It didnt make any sense to me how they could submit the form while still complying to the city ordinance. All I know about it is what you posted. Either they ask about citizenship or they dont.

[ancianita]

7. Thanks for your explanation. I assume that Mayor Washington was testing the waters. If there

was a case to be made against his order, and I believe there was, the subsequent city council ordinances applied new law to cover only other immigrants in the city, probably, and probably nullified Washington's executive order pertaining to city government. I just don't know and haven't explored that point.

It's reasonable to assume that how the city itself complies today with getting federal dollars, doesn't, citywide, apply to this ordinance that explicitly protects immigrants living and working elsewhere in the city from any federal investigation. How the city government itself complies is worth looking into, but I'm also only reading what the links say, and I'm only supposing that the city could still ask applicants about their citizenship, since Washington's executive order was nullified.

[lunasun]

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