Is Lightfoot's "ICE Accountability Project" a shallow bid for attention or a signal she intends to return to politics?
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made a bid to jump back into the spotlight recently by announcing she is starting a new campaign to "unmask" ICE officers in order to guide leftist activists who want to attack Donald Trump's immigration agents in Chicago.
Calling her insurrectionary effort the "ICE Accountability Project," the failed, one-term mayor claims she intends to start an initiative to document and centralize information about the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the Chicago area. She intends that her data be used to prevent legal federal law enforcement efforts.
“We want to create a centralized archive of all the purported criminal actions of ICE and CBP agents,” Lightfoot explained, according to Fox 32. “We want to create a portal where what’s happening in real time can be centralized and put out for the public to view.”
Lightfoot also aims to put ICE agents and other federal law enforcement in danger by compiling as much personal information about the individual officers as she can. In an interview she claimed she was looking to list "Height, weight, hair color…shoes, the car that they’re driving," insisting "we have a right to compile that information and put together a profile of each of these agents."
No, Lori. No, we don't. That sort of information has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with unmasking, doxxing, and putting the safety and lives of individual officers in danger. Does a motorist need to know the height, weight, hair color, etc., etc., of any police officer in the area where we might get pulled over for speeding? No.
Lightfoot, so bad that she became the first Democrat to lose a re-election bid in 40 years in Chicago, also claimed she hopes extremist, insurrectionist activists will use the information she intends to compile to take individual ICE agents to court to sue them.
Anti-American leftists love this idea, to be sure. But not everyone was on-board with the diminutive former mayor’s attack on the federal government.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was certainly less than amused by Lightfoot's little "project." Bondi warned Lightfoot she is breaking federal law with this doxxing effort and suggested Lightfoot could be arrested and charged for obstructing federal law enforcement if she continues to develop this doxxing campaign.
Perhaps a separate question about Lightfoot's attempt to glom onto the immigration debate to get some publicity for herself is "to what end?"
Is Lightfoot looking to re-insinuate herself in Chicago politics by jumping with both feet on a hot button issue so that she can insert herself into the limelight once again?
She should have gotten the hint in 2023 when she was ousted from office — even by her own supporters, who jumped to Brandon Johnson's banner. Indeed, Lightfoot ended up in a distant third place in a five-way race. That was a stinging embarrassment for a sitting mayor of one of the country's biggest cities.
Lightfoot has no constituency nor any path back to power in Chicago. But I am sure it is hard for her to let it all go. Once these far, far, left-wingers get a taste of power, they are loath to give it up.
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