President-elect Donald Trump has promised that, starting on his first day in office, he will mobilize federal and state law enforcement officers to deport illegal immigrants.

Trump has said he plans to deport 15 to 20 million people as part of his “mass deportation plan.”

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“They’re talking about gathering people who are law abiding undocumented immigrants in this country, many of whom are working, paying taxes, getting no benefit for those taxes, I might add,” Pritzker said. “And we have a law on the books in the state of Illinois called the TRUST Act that prohibits our local law enforcement and sheriffs and the like from coordinating with federal authorities.”

Starting in 2022, Illinois taxpayers have spent $2.84 billion to cover costs for undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers living in the state.

Chicago has become a hotspot for the migrant crisis after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) SENT nearly 40,000 migrants to the city in the past two years. It has created a humanitarian crisis as the city struggles to shelter, feed and provide medical care to the migrants.

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While Pritzker may rally behind migrants living in Illinois now, he said it’s “not right” for Texas to send migrants to Illinois.

“There are a lot of other cities that if he’s going to send people, they could be sent to — but no, he’s only picking Democratic states, Democratic cities,” Pritzker said in January.