Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of State consenting to refugee resettlement in Chicago and opposing federal policies seeking to limit refugee entry to the United States. The letter was submitted per the guidelines of federal Executive Order 13888, which specifies that refugees may only be resettled in U.S. jurisdictions where state and local governments have provided their consent – an attempt by the Trump Administration to limit refugee resettlement. Mayor Lightfoot joined more than 80 mayors across the nation earlier this year in urging the Trump Administration to rescind its executive order and to return refugee admissions to earlier annual levels. In another show of support for refugees amid the uncertainty at the federal level, the Department of Law joined several other U.S. cities in an amicus brief earlier this year, HIAS, Inc. vs. Donald Trump, a suit which opposes the potential negative impact of federal policies for Chicago’s refugee communities.