Senator Durbin on sanctuary: Chicago cops not ‘immigration officials’

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

With the Justice Department taking steps to cut some federal funds from Chicago and other sanctuary cities, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Sunday, “We are not going to turn our local police departments into immigration officials.”

Durbin, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” said Chicago should remain a sanctuary city despite the Justice Department crackdown.

And on the potential of a government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s insistence on border wall funding included in a spending bill that must be passed by Friday, Durbin said, “It’s a political stunt, an obsession for the president that should not shut down our government.”

Tricky Dick Durbin goes to bat for illegals.