Bondi puts ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on notice over ICE comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi put former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on notice Thursday night over her promise to “unmask” ICE agents.

During an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Bondi reacted to a clip of Lightfoot describing how she wants to create a real-time portal to track and “unmask” “alleged criminal activity by ICE and CBP agents.”

“This is the first time I’ve seen the Lori Lightfoot video just happen to be on your show,” he told host Jesse Watters. “He’s going to get a letter from us tomorrow to make sure he’s not breaking the law, to protect everything he’s done. It looks like that. You can’t reveal the identity of a federal agent, where he lives, anything that could harm him.”

Lightfoot commented on FOX32 Chicago’s “Chicago Report.” He said he and other attorneys have formed a nonprofit called the “ICE Accountability Project.”

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Lightfoot said it would be a “central archive of all alleged criminal activity by ICE and CBP agents” and provide real-time updates to the public.

“We are starting the process of unmasking the agents,” he said. He claimed he had a constitutional right to document what was happening because it was public property.

Bondi said it’s not just Lightfoot he’s investigating.

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“Pritzker, same ballgame. Nancy Pelosi received a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as did Brooke Jenkins, the district attorney in San Francisco,” he said. “We told them: ‘Protect your emails, protect everything you have on this.’ Because if you’re telling people to arrest our ICE officers, our federal agents, you can’t do that. “You’re obstructing an investigation, and we’re going to blame them.”

The letter Bondi referenced cites various federal laws that make it a crime to assault, obstruct or conspire with federal officers. He also notes that the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution states that government officials cannot prosecute federal agents for actions they take in the course of their duties.

Federal agents walk in front of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles on August 14. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Blanche instructed California leaders to “preserve all written and electronic communications and records relating to any attempt or effort to obstruct or impede federal law enforcement,” forewarning that the Justice Department would investigate and prosecute any official who violates federal law.

In her interview with Watters, Bondi doubled down on her promise to blame them, saying: “If they think I won’t do it, they haven’t met me.”

Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.