The Trump administration has made courthouses a popular location to arrest illegal immigrants , but as more local governments work to block those arrests from happening, a legal showdown is brewing.

Cook County, Illinois , became the latest jurisdiction to block federal immigration officials from conducting arrests of illegal immigrants inside and in the vicinity of local courthouses. The Tuesday administrative order from the court bars civil arrests, without a warrant, of a party or witness to proceedings at the local courthouse, within and around any of the Cook County courthouses. The order joins similar orders in the state of New York and other Democratic jurisdictions that have attempted to curb arrests of illegal immigrants in courthouses.

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