Illinois Prosecutors Secretly Fed ICE Defendant Data
Source: WIRED Daily
County prosecutors in Illinois have been supplying federal immigration agents with defendants' personal information—names, addresses, immigration status—without warrants, public records, or any legislative framework authorizing the practice. Local law enforcement is functioning as an extension of ICE's deportation machinery, converting criminal courtrooms into immigration surveillance nodes. The absence of transparency or legal constraints means defendants facing criminal charges cannot know whether their appearance in court will trigger their own deportation, compromising the attorney-client relationship and due process.