Blue City Mayor Tells CNN Just How Far He’s Gone To Interfere With ICE

Democratic Mayor Daniel Biss of Evanston, Illinois, told CNN host Erin Burnett on Monday that his city turned off certain public safety tools in an effort to thwart United States 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

President Donald Trump hinted at stepped-up federal enforcement efforts in Chicago in an Aug. 25 post on Truth Social, following it up with a meme based on a famous character from the “Apocalypse Now” posted Saturday, which included a reference to the quote “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” from the Francis Ford Coppola-directed film. Biss, a Democratic candidate for Congress, told Burnett that he’d ordered license-plate cameras to be turned off.

“The reason that we communicated with our residents this morning is that I got information from a senior state official last night indicating that they had good intel, that they thought it was likely that ICE would be coming to Evanston today and in the coming days, and we just felt that we had a responsibility to let our residents know so they could work to protect themselves,” Biss claimed.

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“We’ve been doing everything we can to protect our residents from before Donald Trump took office, passing strong sanctuary laws to make sure our police are not cooperating with federal civil Immigration