The lawsuit asks the court to immediately end a number of laws and ordinances it says thwart federal immigration authorities.

Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker says the state follows the law. President Donald Trump has often singled out Chicago and Illinois, which have some of the strongest sanctuary laws in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday against Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois, accusing officials of interfering with immigration enforcement efforts. The suit comes on the heels of a federal judge blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order preventing the children of migrants without legal status from receiving birthright citizenship for the second time this week.