Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are in a war of words about Chicago’s lawsuit brought against the Department of Justice over the city’s sanctuary city status.
On Wednesday, Sessions blasted Chicago in a speech while he lauded the city of Miami for complying with federal immigration law. On Friday, Emanuel pushed back in a podcast appearance with former Obama chief strategist David Axelrod, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The conflict began on Aug. 7 when the City of Chicago announced a lawsuit against the Department of Justice. The lawsuit was in response to the DOJ’s plan to withhold federal funds from so-called “sanctuary cities,” of which Chicago is one. Sanctuary cities limit their cooperation in the enforcement of federal immigration law, protecting illegal immigrants from prosecutions and deportation.
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