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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday unveiled a snowplow named “Abolish ICE” in an effort to oppose the Trump administration’s deportation marketing campaign, lower than every week after an area faculty scholar was allegedly murdered by a person described by authorities as being within the U.S. illegally.
The snowplow title was chosen amongst 13,000 submissions within the metropolis’s You Identify a Plow contest.
“This title derives from our metropolis’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity and the rights of all folks, irrespective of the place they arrive from,” Johnson mentioned in entrance of town’s large salt dome.
“I wish to take this second to reiterate that Chicago doesn’t need ICE on our streets, in our airports, nor in our metropolis. Chicago believes in abolishing ICE.”
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks throughout a press convention saying the top-voted title within the metropolis’s 2026 You Identify a Snowplow contest, Abolish ICE, Wednesday. (Erin Hooley/AP)
“Abolish ICE” is a slogan utilized by progressive activists and politicians in opposition to enforcement actions carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Johnson has beforehand criticized the Trump administration’s use of ICE.
As well as, he not too long ago condemned the deployment of ICE brokers to airports, together with Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport, to help the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA).
The revealing of the snowplow got here days after Loyola College scholar Sheridan Gorman was killed final week, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant.
Jose Medina, 25, who was charged within the alleged killing, was captured by U.S. Border Patrol Might 9, 2023, and subsequently launched into the U.S. underneath the Biden administration.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks throughout a information convention saying the highest title within the metropolis’s 2026 You Identify a Snowplow contest, Abolish ICE, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Chicago. (Related Press)
Johnson was questioned about Gorman’s homicide throughout Wednesday’s unveiling and whether or not he thought of rescheduling the occasion given the timing.
“This can be a horrible tragedy,” he mentioned. “This tragedy will not be going to discourage us from our work. In actual fact, it may problem us all to double down on our efforts to make sure that we’re defending each single particular person throughout neighborhoods.”
Chicago Democratic Alderman Raymond Lopez, who has criticized Chicago sanctuary insurance policies, mentioned Gorman’s dying was “100% avoidable.”
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“The fruits of the alternatives made right here within the metropolis of Chicago and the state of Illinois to guard noncitizens even once they select to interact in harmful prison habits, that mindset has to alter,” he instructed “America Experiences” Wednesday.
“That mindset has to cease as a result of Sheridan and the opposite 1,200 different people throughout this nation who’ve been victims … victimized by noncitizens deserved to be honored in a change in mindset and regulation.”
