DHS scorches Pritzker’s ‘sanctuary’ state after child rapist on ICE detainer released

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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security lambasted Illinois Gov.JB Pritzkerand the state’s refusal to cooperate with ICE after an illegal immigrant convicted of child sexual abuse was released from jail despite calls for state officials to turn him over to federal authorities.

Both Pritzker andChicagoMayor Brandon Johnson have repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement posture, with the mayor comparing President Donald Trump’s America to Jefferson Davis’ Confederacy.

Johnsonhas accusedTrump of “declar[ing] war on Chicago” and using DHS as a “private, militarized, occupying force,” while pledging to fight them in the streets, the legislature and the judiciary.The state operates under the Illinois TRUST Act, a law championed by Springfield Democrats and signed by former Republican Gov.Bruce Rauner that prohibits the use of state and local resources for most civil immigration enforcement purposes.

“Governor Pritzker continues torefuse to do his jobto protect his citizens from illegal alien crime and instead chooses to smear our law enforcement,�

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Pritzker alongside an arrested illegal immigrant pedophile

Gov.JB Pritzker, left;Erik Giovanni-Quiroa, right.(John Nacion/Getty Images;DHS)

“Where is the investigation into his own policies that allowed this pedophile to be released from jail and be loose in Illinois communities?” she added of the Hyatt Hotels heir and potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate.

Bis called on Pritzker to “end this insanity and stop releasing pedophiles into our communities.”

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Giovanni-Quiroa, who also had a 2011 firearm-battery conviction, was given a three-year sentence on the pedophilia charge but ICE instead encountered him on the streets.

Last week, ICE conducted a targeted vehicle stop and arrested Giovanni-Quiroa after his detainer was denied, forcing agents to locate him themselves.

Illinois Gov.JB Pritzker holds a news conference with other Illinois politicians and community leaders to address President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops into Chicago on Aug.25, 2025 in Chicago, Ill.(Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Officials said Giovanni-Quiroa refused to stop and briefly fled before being placed in federal custody.

Bis said “sanctuary” politicians in Illinois and elsewhere continue to wrongly protect criminalillegal immigrantsand allow them to reoffend and perpetrate additional crimes against Americans.

ICE previously called onIllinois law enforcement to beginhonoring ICE detainers, as Director Todd Lyons wrote to Attorney General Kwame Raoul noting that DHS says more than 4,000 illegal immigrants are in state custody.

Giovanni-Quiroa illegally entered the U.S.under the second Bush administration and has been essentially a beneficiary of the aforementioned TRUST Act.

Erik Giovanni-Quiroa is seen in both this photo and accompanying mugshot.(DHS;DHS)

In the heat of “Operation: Midway Blitz” in June, Raoul published a memo reiterating key provisions of the law as a “refresher for Illinois law enforcement agencies.”

“It is important to note, however, that although the Illinois TRUST Act prevents the use of state and local resources for civil immigration enforcement purposes, it does not prevent law enforcement officers from taking action to maintain peace and ensure public safety within their jurisdiction,” Raoul wrote.

“Although some provisions of federal immigration statutes are criminal,deportationand removability are matters of civil law, not criminal law [and] whether an individual is lawfully present in the United States is a question of federal civil immigration law.”

When Rauner signed the TRUST Act in 2017,he saidit would “continue Illinois’ history of welcoming immigrants and help law enforcement focus on stopping violent crime and protecting Illinois residents.”

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In that statement, Rauner also cited a federal court decision from the Chicago-based Northern District of Illinois in which an Obama-appointed judge whom PresidentJoe Bidenlater promoted to an appeals court found flaws in ICE’s detainer process.

Judge John Z.Leesaid in his 2019 orderin Jimenez-Moreno v.Napolitano that immigration detainer orders exceeded DHS’ statutory authority but he also acknowledged a Philadelphia federal court ruling that ICE detainer requests do not violate the Tenth Amendment as alleged.

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