New exclusive video obtained by Fox News reveals intense moments from a rapid chase of the vehicle, while the law enforcement has suspected two illegal immigrants Wear fentanyl By a corn field in Grundy County, Illinois, at the end of last year.
An officer of Grundy County told Fox News that the state policy of the Sanctuary of Illinois allowed the two Honduran illegal immigrants To travel through the county, uncontrolled.
Grundy is a mainly rural province northwest of Chicago.
The images, taken on October 24, shows the two immigrants, Roybin Barahona, 18, and Crithian Anahel Erazo Velasquez, 23, who float through the corn field in a vehicle, and authorities rammed a vehicle into their car to stop them. After their car was rammed, the two men fled their sedan and continued officers their pursuit.
Two immigrants, Roybin Barahona, 18, and Crithian Anahel Erazo Velasquez, 23, traveled through a corn field in Illinois, and the authorities rammed their vehicle to stop them. (Adobe Stock/ Fox News)
Images that are taken later shows to the police who discover a deadly load of seven pounds of Fentanyl in the burnt -out vehicle of the immigrants. Both were accused of regulated drug trafficking, with the intention of delivering Fentanyl and opposing arrest, according to Local Outlet WSPY News.
Due to the Illinois SAFE-T-law, which abolished the cash bail system of Illinois in 2023, Barahona was released without a bail, after which he reportedly fled To California.
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Velasquez in the meantime remains in custody and the Ministry of Interior Security has submitted a detainer against him. Despite the detainer, the legislation in the sanctuary of Illinois will prevent the local law enforcement from sharing information with federal immigration officials about Velasquez.
With Fox News, Grundy County Board chairman Drew Muffler spoke out his frustration with the Illinois Sanctuary Act. He said that “because we are a refuge, it could travel for illegal bad actors with seven pound fentanyl through our province.
Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago criticizes the ice operations that started in his city on Sunday. (Getty Images)
“I do not agree with placing handcuffs on law enforcement and preventing them from working effectively with federal authorities,” he said. “By limiting the assets of the police to maintain the law, we undermine public safety.”
Grundy County was the first of several dozens of provinces in Illinois who tarted the state by performing a non-sanctuary regulation. This is after an influx of more than 51,000 immigrants has been brought to Chicago since the summer of 2022.
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During the migrant crisis, Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson Has doubled with the sanctuary policy of the city and says in a recently ABC 7 Chicago interview: “We will always remain a hospitable and sanctuary space.”
Johnson promised to resist the action of the Trump government against illegal immigration and called the decision to allow ICE to perform enforcement and removal operations on church and school characteristics “unconsciously and reprehensible”.
