Chicago has no sovereign right to its own immigration policy

Published October 9, 2025 5:00am ET



Chicago is a “sanctuary city” in which law officers are forbidden from cooperating with federal agencies to enforce immigration laws. This is all the more reason why National Guard troops may be necessary to carry out the democratic will for illegal immigrants to be deported.

President Donald Trump won the election in November partly because of the Democrats’ utter failure to enforce immigration law. Under former President Joe Biden’s dereliction of duty, with an assist from sanctuary city jurisdictions, including Chicago, the United States was invaded by more than 5 million illegal immigrants.

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