Record #: R2020-574   
Type: Resolution Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 7/22/2020 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Health and Human Relations
Final action: 5/24/2023
Title: Expression of opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's Enforcement and Removal Operations Citizens Academy
Sponsors: Rodriguez Sanchez, Rossana , Ramirez-Rosa, Carlos, La Spata, Daniel , Hadden, Maria E. , Maldonado, Roberto, Taylor, Jeanette B. , Rodriguez, Michael D., Martin, Matthew J. , Cardona, Jr., Felix , Sadlowski Garza, Susan, Villegas, Gilbert, Waguespack, Scott, Vasquez, Jr., Andre, Sawyer, Roderick T., Reboyras, Ariel, King, Sophia D.
Topic: CITY COUNCIL - Miscellaneous
Attachments: 1. R2020-574.pdf
Related files: R2023-766

Committee on Health and Human Relations

July 22,2020 City Council Meeting

 

 

 

RESOLUTION: EXPRESSION OF OPPOSITION TO CITIZENS ACADEMY TRAINING TO BE HELD BY IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN CHICAGO

 

WHEREAS. On July 8 an email from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inviting Illinois stakeholders to participate in the agency's new Enforcement and Removal Operations Citizens Academy (ERO-ECA) was circulated on social media; and

 

WHEREAS, The invitation explained that program participants will ''gain insight into the responsibilities of ICE/ERO operations", and "appreciation ofthe issues officers face every day;" and

 

WHEREAS, The invitation also contained incredibly troublesome language including that the program will have "scenario-based training and exercises conduction in a safe and positive environment, including, but not limited to defensive tactics, firearms familiarization and targeted arrests;" and

 

WHEREAS. Chicago is a sanctuary city because immigrant rights activists and communities have made it one; and

 

WHEREAS, the City of Chicago is committed to protecting our undocumented neighbors, and ensuring the safety and wcllbcing ofour immigrant communities; therefore

 

BE IT RESOLVED, that we. the members ofthe City Council of the City of Chicago, oppose and condemn this effort to recruit vigilantes in our communities and train them on how lo separate families and collaborate in the destruction ofour social fabric; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we demand the cancelation of the Citizens Academy training in Chicago and any other city; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we urge the Illinois Congressional Delegation, the Mayor ofthe City of Chicago and the Governor ofthe State oflllinois to take active steps to work with the chief executives of other cities and states to oppose any trainings or actions that threaten the safety of undocumented people; and

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy ofthis resolution be forwarded to the members of the Illinois Congressional delegation, the Governor ofthe State oflllinois, and President of the United States of America.

 

 

 

Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez                     Carlos Ramirez-Rosa

Daniel La Spata                     Maria Haddcn

Roberto Maldonado                     Jcannette Taylor

Michael Rodriguez                     Matthew Martin

Felix Cardona, Jr                     Susan Sadlowski-Garza

Gilbert Villegas                     Scott Waguespack

Andres Vasquez                     Roderick Sawyer

Ariel Reboyras                     Sophia King