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WASHINGTON (AP) — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem connected Sunday said that the Trump medication volition soon grow migration operations successful Chicago, confirming plans for a stepped up presence of national agents successful the nation's third-largest metropolis arsenic President Donald Trump continues to lash retired astatine Illinois' Democratic leadership.
Noem's comments travel aft the DHS past week requested constricted logistical support from officials astatine the Naval Station Great Lakes to enactment the agency's anticipated operations. The subject installation is astir 35 miles northbound of Chicago.
“We’ve already had ongoing operations with ICE successful Chicago... but we bash mean to adhd much resources to those operations,” Noem said during an quality CBS News' ”Face the Nation."
Noem declined to supply further details astir the planned surge of national officers. It comes aft the Trump administration deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to people crime, migration and homelessness, and 2 months aft it sent troops to Los Angeles.
Trump lashed retired against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker successful a societal media posting Saturday, informing him that helium indispensable straighten retired Chicago's transgression problems rapidly “or we're coming.” The Republican president has besides been captious of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Johnson and Pritzker person pushed backmost against the expected national mobilization, saying transgression has fallen successful Chicago. They are readying to writer if Trump moves guardant with the plan.
Johnson has already signed an order barring the Chicago Police Department from helping national authorities with civilian migration enforcement oregon immoderate related patrols, postulation stops and checkpoints during the surge.
Chicago is location to a ample migrant population, and some the metropolis and the authorities of Illinois have some of the country’s strongest rules against cooperating with national authorities migration enforcement efforts. That has often enactment the metropolis and the authorities astatine likelihood with Trump’s medication arsenic it tries to transportation retired his wide deportation agenda.
Pritzker successful an interrogation aired Sunday connected “Face the Nation” charged that Trump's expected plans to mobilize national forces successful the metropolis whitethorn beryllium portion of a program to “stop the elections successful 2026 or, frankly, instrumentality power of those elections.”
Noem said it was a Trump “prerogative” whether to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago arsenic helium did successful Los Angeles successful June successful midst of migration protests successful the California city.
“I bash cognize that LA wouldn’t beryllium lasting contiguous if President Trump hadn’t taken action," Noem said. “That metropolis would person burned if near to devices of the politician and politician of that state.”
