Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s executive order barring city police from working with federal agents is “a bunch of silly nonsense” that ignores the reality of crime in the city, retired Chicago police Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith told Newsmax on Sunday.

“Well, you know, I served in the Chicago suburbs, but like a lot of Chicago cops, I worked on a task force that involved federal law enforcement,” Smith said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “Johnson’s cops are already working with federal law enforcement. I read that executive order twice. It’s a bunch of silly nonsense.”

Johnson has signed an executive order that bars the Chicago Police Department from assisting federal authorities with immigration enforcement or other related patrols or actions, directing all city departments to guard residents’ constitutional rights “amidst the possibility of imminent militarized immigration or National Guard deployment by the federal government.”

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