Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday took $1 million earmarked for a widely-ignored property tax rebate and used it to create a “Legal Protection Fund” for immigrants living in “anxiety and uncertainty” and threatened with deportation after the election of Donald Trump.Chicago taxpayers are to fund expensive federal law breakers!
The mayor upped the ante in his immigration war of words with Trump by forging a partnership with the National Immigration Justice Center and challenging the private and philanthropic communities to join the effort and provide legal resources to immigrant families living in fear.
Friday, December 02, 2016
Rahm Emanuel creates $1 million legal fund to assist immigrants
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: