Cat got your tongue, General?
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller
* I have been trying without any success since July 18 to obtain a quote from the Illinois attorney general’s office about this situation. WTTW is also having problems…
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office has transferred at least two men into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, in apparent violation of the state’s TRUST Act and Way Forward Act, according to a lawyer who helped provide technical support for the legislation. Both men were later deported.
In a statement, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin pointed to both men’s criminal charges — but in one case, the federal government dismissed its criminal complaint; in the other, he was never charged for the alleged crime that landed him in jail.
In addition, the Adams County Jail also has a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service that authorizes ICE to utilize the jail to detain people for $80 a day. Such contracts also appear to run afoul of state law.
The acts generally prohibit collaboration between Illinois law enforcement officers and federal immigration agencies.
“All of those things are violations,” Mark Fleming, associate director of federal litigation with the National Immigrant Justice Center, said of both the men handed off to ICE by Adams County and the jail contract.
WTTW News detailed these apparent violations to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office, which oversees compliance and enforcement of the state’s sanctuary laws. The office did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
- BE - Wednesday, Aug 20, 25 @ 8:15 am:
Thank you to you and WTTW on trying to get more information on this. We need to know if we can trust our law enforcement officers to follow state law or whether they are okay with human trafficking people for the federal administration.
==in one case, the federal government dismissed its criminal complaint; in the other, he was never charged for the alleged crime that landed him in jail.==
Once again, the lying that it’s only about kidnapping ‘violent criminals’.
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Aug 20, 25 @ 8:39 am:
In my opinion, attorneys general in Illinois have long ignored local government law-breaking. Example, there was a mayor close to my town that was using city funds to buy things, then resell them personally and pocket the money. It was an obvious open and shut case, very well documented. He was never charged. And now is a member of the county board.
The mayor of another town funnels city business to companies he owns and/or is employed by. Doesn’t give a darn that it is against the law. You would think that people that know the law would report this type of felonious corruption, wouldn’t you? Heck no. Why should anyone become a pariah in their town just so the supposed authorities can completely ignore blatant lawbreaking.
So it goes on and on and on. Even when thoroughly reported, little seems to happen… unless it rises the level of a Rita Crundwell. And even her sentence got commuted. So I have no expectations for justice in the realm of local government.