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Rep. Mitchell Condemns House Comittee's Immigration Safe Zone Bill

An Illinois House committee passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to further protect illegal aliens who may reside in Illinois.  
 
Sponsored by a Westchester Democrat, creates the Immigration Safe Zones Act.  The bill provides that schools, medical treatment and health care facilities, and places of worship may not grant access to State and local law enforcement agencies that have entered into an agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement without a proper warrant. State Representative Bill Mitchell (R-Forsyth) says the state of Illinois is broke and this measure just makes that situation worse. 
 
 
The measure also requires the Department of Human Services to provide training or make training available to teachers, administrators, and other staff of elementary and secondary schools, as well as to medical treatment and health care facilities, on how to deal with immigration issues and how to notify families of those issues in multiple languages.

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