DuPage County board affirms due process, calls for fair path to citizenship after wide public comment

The DuPage County Board voted Oct. 28 to adopt a resolution affirming due process and a fair path to citizenship after extensive public comment urging the county to act amid recent federal immigration-enforcement operations.

Chair Conroy presented the resolution and framed it as a step to protect residents’ constitutional rights while noting the limits of county authority over federal enforcement. The resolution passed by roll call: 12 yes, 1 no, 5 not voting.

The vote capped a long public-comment period during which residents, community organizers and local officials urged the board not to leave protections merely symbolic. Speakers asked the county to take concrete steps already employed by peer jurisdictions — training for county employees on how to verify judicial warrants, posted signs identifying county property where civil immigration enforcement would be prohibited without a warrant, staff procedures for reporting federal agent appearances and publicly available tracking of enforcement…