The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Responding to President Donald Trump border policies dubbed “wrong for America” and “wrong for Illinois,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday moved to strengthen Illinois’ immigration laws — signing bills designed to protect the children of undocumented residents.
The new laws would create a pathway for citizenship for undocumented children who have experienced trauma and extend legal guardianship for children whose parents have been detained.
They are the latest in a series of immigration bills the Democratic governor has signed, prompting Pritzker to vow “the state of Illinois stands as a firewall against Donald Trump’s attacks on our immigrant communities.”
There's more:
Amid a threat of ICE raids in Chicago last month, Pritzker signed three other immigration measures. Those included banning private civil detention centers; prohibiting law enforcement from engaging in federal immigration enforcement with ICE and allowing undocumented and transgender students to receive Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants.
Wisconsin residents(going to school in Illinois) also known as "undocumented Illinois residents" will not get the sweet deal Central Americans will get. Here's
more on the Illinois situation which now looks to be
violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
