Illinois Democrats are trying to allow illegal aliens across the state and in the sanctuary city of Chicago to change their names to evade ICE’s deportation efforts against criminal illegals in the state.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, both Democrats, are reportedly blocking ICE agents from entering prisons and jails to deport hundreds of illegal aliens in the sanctuary city of Chicago. Real America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam reported that there are about 300 illegal aliens in jail with ICE detainer requests, but leftist Chicago officials will not let ICE take them to be deported.
In the same segment of Bannon’s War Room, Bergquam revealed that Pritzker is poised to sign a new legislative measure, which will remove restrictions for illegals wishing to change their names.
The Gateway Pundit recently reported that the new law, HB 5164, passed both houses of Illinois Congress earlier this month and will be applicable to criminal offenders as well.
It is unclear when Pritzker will sign the bill, which was sent to his desk last week, into law.
Proponents of HB5164 claim the new law will make certain individuals, including victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse and, bizarrely, transgenders, feel safer. However, also openly admitted by supporters is how this could help illegal aliens amid ongoing enforcement and deportation efforts by ICE. Illinois legislators have also prevented Chicago Police from working with the Federal government to remove illegals involved in drug crimes, gang-related crimes, prostitution, human trafficking, or child sex crimes.
Illinois also passed HB3882 in 2023, allowing illegals to obtain a “standard identification card,” replacing the former classification of “non-compliant identification card,” the Gateway Pundit reported.
“There are residents in our state who do not feel safe when they are an adoptee; they’re transgender; they’re an immigrant; they’re a survivor of domestic violence, survivor of sexual exploitation and human trafficking,” the bill’s sponsor, Democrat State Senator Ram Villivalam reportedly said in an interview. “So they would like to change their name, and in doing so, we need to remove as many barriers as we can to ensure their health and safety.”
Republican state lawmakers, however, expressed concerns about the potential of criminal illegal aliens using this law as a “loophole.”
“Is this creating a loophole for people who are here, who are criminals and part of things involved in the trafficking, involved in all of these nefarious activities that we’ve been reading about?” GOP State Senator Sue Rezin questioned.
State Senator Andrew Chesney also said, “With the passage of this law, illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes can simply change their names, making it difficult for law enforcement or immigration officials to track them down.”
Ram Villivalam said the quiet part out loud, claiming, “Now, more than ever – given the rise in hate and discrimination across the board – people you know feel targeted. So the legislative work that we can do to reassure them on their safety and health is part of our job.”
“As people continue to feel the hate, feel the discrimination, get targeted, we need to continue to take these steps to make sure they feel healthy and safe,” said Villivalam.
Of course, he was referring to illegal aliens.
The bill “provides that filing fees for a petition for change name may not exceed $25” and allows the court to waive the filing fee fee “for good cause shown.” It further reduces requirements for the length of residency, allows the petitioner to impound the record of their name change, avoiding public disclosure, and allows petitioners to omit their home address from court records “if it would put the petitioner or petitioner’s family at risk.”
The bill also repeals a provision requiring the publication of “a notice of a petition to change a name” in a local newspaper.
The bill’s synopsis is as follows:
Amends the Clerks of the Court Act. Provides that filing fees for a petition for change name may not exceed $25, and the court may waive this fee for good cause shown. Amends the Name Change Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Deletes the requirement that a petitioner must reside in the State for 6 months before the petitioner may file a petition under the Article. Allows a petitioner to request that the court file be impounded if public disclosure may be a hardship and have a negative impact on the petitioner’s health or safety. Allows the petitioner to attach to the statement any supporting documents including relevant court orders. Allows the petitioner to request that his or her address be omitted from court documents if it would put the petitioner or petitioner’s family at risk. Repeals the requirements to publish a notice of a petition to change a name.
The law will take effect in March.
Bergquam joined Steve Bannon in the War Room Monday to discuss these developments in Chicago.
“These guys are traitors. That’s what they are. They need to be arrested as traitors to this country,” he said of the lawless Democrat officials, Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
WATCH:
Bergquam: Talk about salt in the wound, Steve, Governor Pritzker, not only is not allowing these guys in the jail to get these guys, he just announced that they’re able to change their names. They’re getting driver’s licenses and able to change their names so that they can hide more easily from ICE. These guys are traitors. That’s what they are. They need to be arrested as traitors to this country.
This story originally appeared on TheGateWayPundit
