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wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

Dozens of emails reviewed by the nonprofit newsroom Injustice Watch reveal a pattern of consequential collaboration between county prosecutors and federal immigration agencies across Illinois during the first 15 months of Trump’s second term.

wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

Sometimes, prosecutors volunteered information on their own. Other times, they simply answered DHS agents’ enquiries. The collaboration typically happened without the knowledge of defendants or their attorneys.

wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

The TRUST Act bars police and other agencies from helping federal agents deport people absent a federal criminal warrant. But the law doesn’t squarely answer whether prosecutors and their staff are bound by those same restrictions.

wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said in a statement: “Applying the TRUST Act in practice requires state and local enforcement to navigate complex interactions in circumstances that are not always clear-cut.” He didn’t answer whether county prosecutors are bound by the Act.