On a recent episode of CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker showed again why sanctuary policies are about as popular as paying taxes or getting a root canal.

Pritzker accused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of indiscriminately “picking up people who are brown and black” and detaining elderly individuals during the agency’s “Operation Midway Blitz” operation in Chicago. “They need to get the heck out,” the governor proclaimed of the federal government’s immigration enforcement arm.

It was pure political theater from someone widely believed to have ambitions for higher office. Pritzker’s sensational accusations, however, ignore the giant elephant in the room. Chicago’s sanctuary policies, which bar local police from cooperat

See Full Page