Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) said he's "not afraid" of the Trump administration after receiving a warning about instructing state employees on how to handle a confrontation with ICE officials.
Evers released a YouTube video Friday to hit back at "border czar" Tom Homan's suggestion that the governor was working to impede ICE arrests.
"The goal of this guidance was simple — to provide clear, consistent instructions to state employees and ensure they have a lawyer to help them comply with all federal and state laws. Nothing more, nothing less," Evers said.
"I haven't broken the law, I haven't committed a crime, and I've never encouraged or directed anyone to break any laws or commit any crimes."
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Homan told reporters at the White House Thursday to "wait to see what's coming" when asked about Evers' April memo advising state employees.
One of the recommendations was to "contact the agency's legal counsel if ICE officers visit a state building and ask the officers to return at another time if a staff attorney is unavailable," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"If you cross that line to impediment or knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien, that's a felony and we're treating it as such," Homan said.
In his three-minute-long response, Evers described Homan's threat as "chilling."
"We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected official, or even everyday American citizens who have broken no laws, committed no crimes and done nothing wrong," Evers said. "And as disgusted as I am about the continued actions of the Trump administration, I'm not afraid."
Last week, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested in Milwaukee and charged with two federal counts of allegedly "trying to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom." The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Dugan this week, "until further order of the court."
