Sanctuary city ‘ICE free zones’ present operational risk, says special agent

While the Chicago Brandon Johnson mayor signs an executive order to create “ICE free areas”, a special federal agent working on deportations said that these types of measures cause real complications and hinder ICE’s ability to take strict measures against illegal criminals.

The private agent, who works in the deportations in New England, told Fox News Digital that the policies of the haven that prevent Ice agents from using police or other city areas to organize often force customers to reveal, and they have to prepare for tasks in public areas.

The agent explained that if ICE does not have a nearby office and was prevented from using the city’s lands, “this means that you are stuck in saying:” Well, I will go to a supermarket. I will go to some office complexes if you can find one, perhaps a garden while wearing my jacket and all of that, and I will get a notification. “

On Monday, Johnson, a Democrat, signed an executive thing that prohibits the use of car parks in the city and gaps for civil immigration enforcement areas, processing sites or operating rules.

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Johnson described the matter as the creation of “ice -free areas”. Speaking at a press conference to sign on Monday, he said that it also enables “private companies that are not willing” to refuse to use ICE customers for their property to regulate operations. He said that the matter “aims to restrain this administration outside of control.”

Johnson said: “If the federal government violates this executive order, we will present it to the court,” and urged Trump to leave the crazy Chicago “.

In a statement posted on X, Johnson accused the immigration and customs administration agents “of holding elected officials, tear gas protesters, children, and police officers in Chicago, and offending the treatment of Chicago residents.”

Johnson wrote: “With this executive, Chicago stands steadily in protecting the constitutional rights of our inhabitants and migrant societies and support our democracy,” Johnson wrote.

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Federal law enforcement agents dispersed the demonstrators outside the migrant treatment center with a barrage of tear gas and pepper balls on September 27, 2025, in Broadvio, Illinois. The demonstrators were protesting the recent increase in the arrests of the Immigration and Customs Administration in the Chicago region, as part of a campaign launched by the Trump administration called the Midway Plitz. (Getty Emojz)

The White House responded to issuing a scathing statement in which he described the matter as “disgusting betrayal for every citizen committed to the law.”

The White House described the matter as a “sick policy” “pampering the illegal foreign, rapists and members of the gangs who prey on the innocent Americans.”

The White House statement said: “The protection of the illegitimate foreigners is the most corrupt and violent of justice is not only an insult to all Chicago residents, but also a dangerous intensification of the agenda of” sanctuary “crazy for Democrats where illegal criminals come in front of American citizens.

According to the agent, Chicago is not the city of the only haven that prevents the Immigration and Customs Administration from using municipal property to regulate the enforcement of immigration laws.

The agent said: “What leaves you in an urban environment? You will go to the supermarket. And who is in the supermarket? Everyone found them.”

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Federal agents, including members of the Ministry of Internal Security, Border Patrols and Police, are trying to remove demonstrators outside the immigration and customs facility on October 5, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. (Spencer Platt / Getty Imags)

The customer explained that preparing for tasks in public places is a operational danger because it allows activists anti -customs to track and publish their movements.

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The agent said: “They can see us together and put it on Facebook immediately because there are different pages on Facebook that we know that they put us on them.”

The agent also expressed concern about the policies of the haven that prevents police stations from helping if the demonstrators become violent.

The agent said: “Being in the city of Malaz, in the event of violence, or a person is harmful, whether it is a government person or a protester. What will the local police do? Will we allow us to deal with the matter? I do not know.”

Derdari Haifi of the Fox News Digital channel contributed to preparing this report.