Blue state Republican calls on county sheriffs to defy sanctuary law, Dem governor rumored for 2028 run

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., is calling connected sheriffs successful her authorities to defy Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state’s sanctuary laws and alternatively uphold national migration law.

Miller said the state’s sanctuary policies person transformed the Land of Lincoln into a "cesspool of transgression and drugs." She is calling connected sheriffs successful the authorities to "act now" and disregard Pritzker’s attempts to circumvent President Donald Trump connected migration instrumentality and alternatively enactment straight with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) connected deportations.

This comes arsenic Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, besides a Democrat, person emerged arsenic immoderate of the nation’s starring absorption voices against the Trump administration, particularly erstwhile it comes to his crackdown connected illegal immigration.

The Democratic-majority Illinois legislature passed the TRUST Act successful 2017, which limits section instrumentality enforcement’s quality to cooperate with ICE and bars them from enforcing migration law.

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Congresswoman Mary Miller, R-Ill., is calling connected sheriffs successful her authorities to defy Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker by refusing to comply with the state’s sanctuary laws and alternatively uphold national migration law. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Pritzker, who is seen arsenic a imaginable 2028 statesmanlike candidate, has continued to combat the administration, adjacent denouncing Trump arsenic an "authoritarian" and calling for wide protests to disrupt the president’s agenda, saying Republicans "cannot cognize a infinitesimal of peace."

The Democratic politician has besides vowed to defy the administration’s migration docket and has said that Trump and borderline czar Tom Homan are "the ones who are threatening people."

ICE has said that authorities and section policies inhibiting instrumentality enforcement from cooperating with ICE endangers national agents and communities by allowing nationalist information threats to locomotion free.

The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed ineligible charges against Pritzker, Johnson and respective different Chicago officials for refusing to grant ICE detainers, which the section said, "obstructs ICE from assuming custody of an alien successful a harmless and controlled manner."

In its filing, the DOJ said that "when a detainer is not honored oregon an alien is released from a non-federal installation without notification oregon transportation to ICE, ICE indispensable behaviour investigations and execute targeted enforcement actions to re-apprehend the alien. And portion ICE is undertaking re-apprehension efforts, the alien remains at-large successful the assemblage and escaped to perpetrate further crimes oregon different endanger nationalist safety."

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents locomotion down a thoroughfare during a multi-agency, targeted enforcement cognition successful Chicago connected Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Though constabulary departments are typically nether the nonstop power of metropolis officials, sheriffs are elected by the radical they service and often person much leeway to enforce the instrumentality unimpeded by governmental pressure.

As such, Miller is urging sheriffs crossed the authorities to basal against Pritzker and authorities authorities and enforce migration law.  

"I telephone connected each section sheriff successful Illinois to defy these unsafe directives, cooperate with ICE, and enactment President Trump’s deportation efforts," Miller said to Fox News Digital.

She said that "Pritzker’s sanctuary authorities policies person transformed Illinois into a cesspool of transgression and drugs brought by the illegals helium is actively resettling."

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U.S. Representative Mary Miller (R-IL) gives remarks aft receiving an endorsement during a Save America Rally with then-former President Donald Trump astatine the Adams County Fairgrounds connected June 25, 2022 successful Mendon, Illinois. (Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

"Our communities are being overwhelmed, guiltless girls are being raped, and Americans are being ruthlessly murdered," she added. "These are the tragic consequences of his failed leadership."

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"We indispensable enactment present earlier 1 much guiltless American beingness is mislaid oregon harmed," she said.

Pritzker's bureau did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.