US EditionPritzker creates ‘accountability’ commission in response to Trump’s Chicago raids
The commission will document ICE abuses, assess impacts on families, and recommend measures to prevent further harm, chaired by former federal judge Ruben Castillo.
- On Thursday, Governor JB Pritzker signed an executive order creating the Illinois Accountability Commission within the Illinois Department of Human Rights to investigate alleged civil‑rights abuses tied to federal immigration enforcement.
- The commission will focus on three core missions: building a public record of reported abuses, documenting impacts on families, and recommending actions to prevent further harm, Pritzker said.
- Ruben Castillo, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, will chair the commission, with Attorney Patricia Brown Holmes as vice chair and appointees including Aurora Austriaco and Susan R. Gzesh.
- Pritzker said the commission's findings will serve as an official record to support future accountability efforts and legal action, and the state has collected hundreds of videos and firsthand accounts for use in legal proceedings.
- The order follows a Little Village incident where Michael Rodriguez said eight people were detained and later released after seven hours, amid reports of license plate tampering. Rodriguez said, `'All residents have the right to peacefully observe ICE/CBP activity. The federal government continues to claim that those who exercise their rights are breaking the law,'` Rodriguez said.
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Gov. JB Pritzker establishing an ‘accountability commission’ on Trump administration’s immigration raids
For weeks, Chicagoans and suburbanites have recorded masked federal agents pursuing people down streets, detaining them, and loading them into unmarked cars — scenes that have at times descended into chaos amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Now, in a move that could bolster both his public messaging and the state’s legal efforts to fight the Trump administration, Gov. JB Pritzker is seeking to channel those videos, t…
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* WTTW… Gov. JB Pritzker announced Thursday he would form a commission to document what he called “countless acts of harassment and intimidation and brutality and abuse of power” during a series of increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement raids across Chicago and the suburbs. […] “Donald Trump is counting on your silence,” Pritzker said. “We are counting on [...]
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Pritzker signs executive order to document "unlawful attacks" by federal immigration enforcement agents
Gov. JB Pritzker tells CBS News that his newly created Illinois Accountability Commission will serve as a permanent record of alleged civil rights abuses by federal agents in Chicago.
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