In a controversial move, Illinois Democrats are pushing forward a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to change their names legally to help them evade detection by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The proposal, which undermines the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, further highlights Illinois’ troubling trend of prioritizing the interests of illegal immigrants over the safety and security of American citizens. While supporters argue the move is about protecting immigrants from deportation, critics see it as a blatant attack on the rule of law and an irresponsible effort to shield individuals who have entered the country illegally from accountability.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) was considering signing a measure to protect illegal aliens from being detected by law enforcement.

House Bill 5164 would remove restrictions on illegal immigrants wishing to change their names. It passed both houses of Illinois Congress earlier this month and was sent to Pritzker’s desk last week.

The legislation would also protect criminal offenders and ensure that “filing fees for a petition for change name may not exceed $25.” it would also allow the court to waive the filing fee "for good cause shown."

“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, a survivor of sexual exploitation and human trafficking,” the bill’s sponsor, Democrat State Senator Ram Villivalam 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.”

This is not the first time Illinois Democrats have attempted to undermine President Donald Trump’s attempt to bring law and order back into the United States. State lawmakers have also blocked Chicago police from collaborating with federal authorities to deport illegal immigrants involved in drug trafficking, gang activity, prostitution, human trafficking, or child sex crimes.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/01/31/illinois-democrats-to-allow-illegals-to-change-their-names-to-evade-ice-n2651454

Anger is brewing in South Fulton, Georgia, over how its mayor is spending taxpayer dollars.

On Tuesday, the South Fulton City Council approved an audit into how Mayor Khalid Kamau is tossing around city money and imposed new rules to control spending

Some context: On his website, the mayor, who calls himself Mayor Kobi, boasts that he is “America’s first Movement for Black Lives elected to public office.”

As noted by Politico, about 90 percent of the residents of South Fulton are black, which is the highest percentage of black residents in the nation.

And that was what mattered the most when Kamau was upbraided over city spending.

Among the spending that is being questioned are flights the mayor took without any of the required approvals, according to WSB-TV. Bank records indicate the mayor and one employee went to Patis in May. He took another employee to Africa in October. The trips cost taxpayers about $8,000,

Kamau walked out when questions were raised, but not before playing the race card, according to WSB-TV.

“I am so distressed and disappointed that the blackest city in one of the blackest states in the United States of America heading into Black History Month, we are tearing each other down,” Kobi said.

Councilwoman Helen Willis, who like the mayor, is black, was not intimidated.

“We’re not tearing you down; you took your black behind over to Africa for 20 days and didn’t tell anybody,” she responded.

Willis said she was tired of the mayor answering fiscal questions with lectures on racial solidarity.

“Mayor, I really was going to let this go, but I can’t continue to sit here and allow you to make it seem like we’re the villains, and you’re the victim,” Willis said, according to Fox News.

“Now those cameras are in the back of the room, not because of us. We would love to come to a meeting and just go through this agenda, have a professional meeting. And do the business of the people and go home. But it was you who wanted to go sit around and call us the ‘Blackest city’ and say we want to tear each other down,” she said.

She said the “blackest city” comment was “disrespectful,” adding “We keep telling him that.”

Resident Reshard Snellings said he attended the meeting to get some answers about spending on travel, food and other items that, all told, comes to about $26,000, according to WSB-TV.

“I wanted to find out if taxpayers paid for this trip,” he said, “We should not be asked to go without something so that our elected officials can travel all over the globe.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/took-black-behind-africa-20-days-fed-councilwoman-dunks-black-lives-mayor-suspected-abusing-funds/

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