Arguing that “no country should be above international law,” Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a “worsening human rights crisis in the United States.”

In a virtual appearance before the panel’s members meeting in Switzerland, Johnson invited UN experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand abuses committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during raids that have wreaked havoc in neighborhoods across the city and suburbs.

“That is why I call on this council to hold the federal government of the United States to the same standards of accountability you apply elsewhere in the world,” Johnson said, urging the group to consider holding a special sessio

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