Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a wide-ranging, but largely symbolic, executive order Saturday that directs law enforcement against wearing masks in Chicago, in his latest effort to counter President Donald Trump’s ongoing threats of sweeping federal immigration raids and even a potential occupation of the city by federal forces.

While extensive, the “Protecting Chicago” initiative was also a tacit acknowledgment that the mayor and city cannot stop any White House efforts to follow through on Trump’s threats on the nation’s third-largest city.

Still, Johnson, at a City Hall news conference, maintained the order allows his Law Department to “pursue any and every legal mechanism to hold this administration accountable.”

“I do not take this executive action lightly,” Johnson told report

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