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CHICAGO (WGN) — With the National Guard en way to Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday that helium has not heard thing from the Trump administration.
"It's illegal, unconstitutional. It's dangerous. It's wrong," Johnson said. "This is not astir deportation, this is not astir information for this president, this is astir authoritarianism."
The unit deployment is expected to see men and women from the Illinois and Texas National Guards. Texas Governor Gregg Abbott confirmed their mission, prompting a absorption from Johnson.
"The politician of Texas should beryllium disquieted astir Texas," Johnson said. "Why is helium each up successful my business?"
Despite Chicago's year-over-year reductions successful crime, including a 60-year debased successful homicides this summer, President Donald Trump authorized unit deployment.
"Chicago tin beryllium very, precise safe. It’s gonna beryllium precise safe," Trump stated.
Federal instrumentality enforcement officials accidental resources are needed to defender United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and facilities. The president besides argues that the national authorities is required to support residents safe.
"So you person Black women with MAGA hats connected successful Chicago, each implicit the place, they privation the defender to travel in, oregon they don't attraction who comes in, they conscionable privation to beryllium safe," Trump said.
Johnson had a antithetic take.
"It’s absorbing due to the fact that helium talks astir 2 Black women who deterioration reddish hats, but he's not talking astir the thousands of Black women helium has fired," helium said.
In a social media post Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that he, too, would beryllium en way to the Windy City.
"Chicago volition beryllium saved, and this FBI volition proceed to crush convulsive transgression there, and each astir the country," Patel said.
Johnson welcomed Patel's visit.
"I powerfully promote him to walk arsenic overmuch arsenic helium perchance can," helium said. "The metropolis of Chicago has been voted yet again the champion large metropolis successful America, and helium gets to get a beforehand enactment seat."
Bracing for national operations, Johnson has signed aggregate enforcement orders, including ICE-free zones and a request that section and national agents refrain from wearing masks. But whether downtown oregon connected operations connected the South and West Sides, ICE and Board Patrol person been wearing masks.
In what is genuinely uncharted territory, Johnson voiced his tendency to spot transgression charges brought against national agents who interruption his enforcement orders; however, it’s unclear who would bring astir those charges.
