Sue-happy Obama will not use DOJ to enforce ICE detainers
Sue-happy Obama will not use DOJ to enforce ICE detainers
Dave Gibson
April 12, 2012
On Monday, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) director John Morton, refusing to hold illegal aliens for ICE in the Cook County Jail who can be released on bond.
In September the Cook County Board of Supervisors voted to ignore so-called ICE detainers for illegal alien suspects.
Preckwinkle wrote: “detainees in Cook County are granted fair and equitable access to justice, regardless of their immigration status.”
Fox News quoted the defiant Preckwinkle, as saying: “Over time, we've expanded the rights and leveled the playing field across a variety of issues, gender, race, sexual orientation. The last frontier is how we treat the undocumented in this country.”
About 100 illegal aliens are booked into the Cook County Jail every month.
Who is Obama's Alderwoman in Chicago? Toni Preckwinkle of the 4th Ward. She Helped Jump Start His Political Career.
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4) As expressed in The New Yorker article, Preckwinkle -- who is as earnest a politician as one will find, and indeed loves working to improve her ward (and trust us, lives with her husband and children on a budget; if you tried to bribe her, she would probably whack you with a ruler) -- was key to Obama's rise in the political world of Hyde Park and what is geographically the mid-South Side of Chicago. Preckwinkle has strong independent Democratic political connections, which is what you need to win in the Hyde Park area (home to the University of Chicago and sort of a unique liberal, intellectual, and integrated outpost, although her ward extends into much poorer and more distressed neighborhoods). But once Obama was creamed in his primary loss to Congressman Rush in 2000 (see interview), some in Hyde Park, including Preckwinkle, believe that Obama started going after funders "uptown" that he would need for a U.S. Senate race and many of those who nurtured his independent political rise felt a bit abandoned. Nonetheless, Preckwinkle is an Illinois Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She fully supports him, but as we've seen with some of the recent Obama statements, she's the canary in the mine who teaches us that we can back a candidate but also be prepared to experience disappointments along the way.
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Who is Obama's Alderwoman in Chicago? Toni Preckwinkle of the 4th Ward. She Helped Jump Start His Political Career. | BuzzFlash.org
