The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker (d) is asking the pension funds and the acquisition agencies of their status to examine any investment or contract they have with companies in El Salvador, the first step towards a possible boycott of the country to help President Donald Trump define judicial orders in the treatment of migrants.

In a statement, Pritzker indicated that the movements were in response to the disposition of the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, to help Trump deny the due process to hundreds of migrants deported to El Salvador and now maintained in a notoriously dangerous security prison without potential for liberation.

“The United States Constitution guarantees due process. We are witnessing that Donald Trump erodes our fundamental constitutional rights in real time, and we must fight to restore the balance of power,” said Pritzker. “The state of Illinois will defend the rule of law and do everything that in our power prevents the Trump administration from destroying our most basic rights.”

The governor’s movement continues its strategy to face the administration of Trump and its allies, a contrast with other governors who have followed a more conciliatory approach. Pritzker, a billionaire businessman whose family has the Hyatt hotels chain, is seen as a probable 2028 presidential candidate.

Pritzker is ordering the pension funds of his status, which have $ 200 billion combined in assets and investments, to investigate whether the funds are invested in a company owned by the Government of El Salvador or companies based in the country.

The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, is putting his condition on the way to boycott El Salvador.
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, is putting his condition on the way to boycott El Salvador.

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He also asked the State Procurement Agency to examine whether the State has a contract with companies based in El Salvador, and asked its trade office to examine the scope of trade between El Salvador and Illinois to determine what imports send the country to the state of the west medium and if the Savior provides any product included in the supply chains of manufacturers based in Illinois.

Pushing states or cities to boycott or disin from certain companies and countries as a form of foreign policy is not a new idea: 26 states participated in the campaign of divestment against South Africa in the 1980 division and sanctions of Bielarus.

Pritzker’s allies expect the measure to inspire other states to announce similar plans. “This is a clear moment in which the rights of each American in each state are under attack,” said a source close to the governor’s office. “We hope that other states consider similar actions and join to press Trump and El Salvador to follow the law. We need more voices to sound the alarm and apply pressure.”

Bukele, an authoritarian who has centralized power in the small Central American nation, appeared with Trump in the Oval office last week and insisted that he had no power to return to Kilmar Abrego García to the United States, despite an order of the Supreme Court that required the United States government to “facilitate” the return of Garcia.

The Trump administration deported Garcia, who arrived illegally in the United States, El Salvador despite a permanent court order that could not be deported to the country. A lawyer from the Department of Justice admitted that deportation was due to an “administrative error.”

The Democrats have recovered around the cause of returning to Abrego García, to whom the Trump administration alleged with minimal evidence that he is a member of the MS-13 gang. A Yougov/Economist survey published Wednesday found that 50% of Americans want Trump to return Abrego García to the United States, while 28% do not want me to return and 22% are not sure.

Trump has also talked about deporting US citizens to El Salvador.

“The landlords are the following, the local crazy people. You have to build about five more places,” Trump told Bikele before his meeting in the Oval office, asking him to build more prisons.