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The Democratic governor building a playbook to resist ICE

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker attends a Veterans Day ceremony in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, on November 11, 2025. | Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images Few Democratic politicians have leaned into the fight against the Trump administration as aggressively as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. While some blue-state leaders have tried to find a lane of compromise or quiet resistance, Pritzker has gone the other direction — signing laws to limit ICE operations in the state, creating the Illinois Accountability Commission staffed by retired federal judges, suing the federal govern...