In the latest round of radical Democrats going on the attack against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, the sanctuary state of Illinois’s Governor, JB Pritzker, pushed the idea that his state could start arresting ICE agents for allegedly violating his ridiculous, anti-immigration enforcement laws.
Such came when Pritzker appeared on Thursday, October 16, on MSNBC’s “The Briefing” with former Biden Administration Press Secretary and present MSNBC host Jen Psaki, telling her that there are state and local laws that could be used to crack down on ICE agents and even, potentially, arrest them.
Introducing the matter, Jen Psaki noted that Pritzker had previously broached the idea of arresting ICE agents and asked if he actually plans on doing that, saying, “You said on Sunday that you were looking at prosecuting ICE agents who violate the law. What can you tell us about that? What would that look like?”
Responding, Pritzker told her that there is no “accountability,” here meaning ridiculous lawfare against ICE, at the federal government level, and so the Illinois government will attempt to attack them at the state and local level. He began, “We don’t know that anybody would be held accountable at the federal level.”
Continuing, he outlined what such a strategy would look like and who would be involved with implementing it across the state, saying, “So we’re looking at all of the options at the local level with county state’s attorneys, with attorneys general to to go after people when they’re breaking Illinois law, when they’re breaking local law.”
Still not done, he attacked ICE agents for using tear gas to try to clear protesters, absurdly insisting that such crowd control is illegal. He said, “And, and we think that they have, you know, when they’re driving through an area, someone’s yelling at them and they decide to simply throw a tear gas canister out of the car as they’re driving through at someone who’s on the side of the road, that, it seems to me, is I know is a violation of Illinois law.”
Ridiculously conflating the actions of federal law enforcement with those of everyday citizens in an attempt to justify his idea of arresting ICE officers, he said, “And so the question is, can we hold the officers, the agents responsible when they do something like that? If it were a police officer, we could, if it was, you know, you or me or just an average person throwing a, you know, a tear gas canister out the side of a window at people, we could hold them responsible. So it seems like they ought to be held responsible for breaking local and state laws.”
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Pritzker also insisted, absurdly, that Trump has mental health issues, claiming, “This is not the way the president of the United States should be behaving.” He added, “I don’t think anybody around him on a day-to-day basis wants to get him any help because they have more power based upon his diminished capacity.”
Listen to him here: