Guess who just went ahead and banned President Donald Trump while dismissing his decision to discontinue the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, making the city a "Trump Free Zone"? 

Meet Rahm Emmanuel, Mayor to Chicago, who emerged as a local superhero after blatantly ignoring Trump's move and took a bold step by welcoming immigrant children and encouraging them to follow their dreams.

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Nearly 800,000 foreign immigrants benefitted from the DACA programme, which was former president Barack Obama's initiative, to keep those who came as children to the U.S. from being deported.

Trump had threatened to put an end to this programme stating that he didn't "favour punishing children", however, making it clear that unlawful immigration carried out by their parents shouldn't be ignored. He acted on this statement earlier this week and took the decision to shut the programme down.

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But a clearly unfazed Emmanuel delivered an passionate speech at a high school in Chicago, and addressed students as "dreamers" (a referential extension of the DREAM act that allows illegal immigrants a chance to serve in the army or study at college to earn legal resident status), reassuring them that they are "welcome to the city of Chicago" and that they have "nothing to worry about" because it is their home.

He further added that students "will always be Dreamers in the eyes of the city of Chicago, because (they) have big dreams and (Chicago) want(s) to be a part of those dreams".

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The one statement by Emmanuel that is bound to severely rankle the President is, "Our schools, our neighbourhoods, our city - as it relates to what President Trump said - will be a Trump-Free Zone".

The entire development gives one a sense of an impending rebellion, the seeds of which have already been sown by Emmanuel's bold move. He's the second time reigning Mayor of Chicago (first elected in 2011), and clearly he is living up to his promises of protecting his people.