Illinois state officials have given national rental car companies official notice that immigration enforcement agents using their vehicles are not allowed to swap the rental’s assigned license plates for other plates to disguise the vehicles, and if they do, the rental car companies could be held liable.
According to documents obtained by NBC News via the Freedom of Information Act, the Illinois secretary of state’s office sent letters to at least 19 national car rental headquarters stating that they had received public complaints of immigration agents switching license plates on rented vehicles when Operation Midway Blitz, an extensive government deportation operation, was active in the Chicago area.
The letters were sent to Alamo, Enterprise, Budget, Hertz, Ace and other vehicle rental companies. They did not respond to requests for comment.
… And they basically admitted it.
“Our operators comply with federal law and, consistent with the Supremacy Clause, endeavor to comply with state law except where doing so could compromise or interfere with the federal mission and operations,” the DHS said.
Which basically is another way of saying “We do what we want and Illinois can fuck off”.
“We always comply with the law, except when we don’t”
“We always comply with the law, because the executive has decreed that we ARE the law.”
Why do they get a warning?
I don’t get a warning when I break the law.
short version? the government has to consent to the suit in order for you to sue them.
Arrest them!
Enforced by the same police that helped ICE be violent towards peaceful protestors?
Until someone starts to hold them to account then it is just a suggestion.
“Official notice”
So it’s the rental car companies responsibility to enforce the law?
If they know it’s happening, maybe they need to step up enforcement, not pass the buck. But, I suppose that might actually be effective, and we can’t have that now, can we?
Maybe if the governor wasn’t a multi-billionaire focused on his own wealth the state could bring charges…
But he has too much wealth at stake to ever really fight back
JB Pritzker is actually cool and does a lot of good for Illinois. He can get guillotined last.
He’s “cool enough” to not fuck more shit up, but clearly won’t actually do anything to help.
Loves getting his name out in the press and making threats, but won’t actually do anything.
Won’t even prevent Illinois law enforcement for working with ice for fucks sake.
It’s insane the billionaire owned media is able to convince so many people that a multi-billionaire refusing to do anything to help is something to be celebrated just because his boot is calmly on our throats instead of actively stomping.
If Pritzker wasn’t in office, we could have someone willing to fight instead.
