From Newsweek,
JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago.
Prosecute? For what crime(s) is the Illinois governor seeking prosecution?
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Sunday suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
“The tables will turn one day,” Prtizker told FOX 32 Chicago. ”These people should recognize that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration because the statute of limitations would not have run out.”
So, the crime consists of being a federal agent during the time Trump was President. Pritzker’s legal theory sound insurrectiony to me. What’s the statute of limitations on formerly working for a Republican chief executive? I’m asking for myself.
We keep hearing how illegal immigrants themselves are prosecuted for “status” crimes, the fact that they exist as corporeal beings in our observable four-dimensional universe. No, the crime is one of deliberate action: they moved across an international boundary without legal authorization and did not return. So, what’s really going on here?
Pritzker, who is widely seen as a potential candidate for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, has taken an increasingly assertive stance toward the Trump administration and its immigration enforcement agencies.
His remarks about potentially prosecuting federal immigration officers reflect an effort to position himself as a defender of state and local authority against what he characterizes as federal overreach.
“Overreach” is not a crime. However, harboring a fugitive is.
