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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump labeled Chicago the world's "most unsafe city" connected Tuesday arsenic helium seemingly confirmed an upcoming national takeover.
"Pritzker needs assistance badly, helium conscionable doesn’t cognize it yet. I volition lick the transgression occupation fast, conscionable similar I did successful DC. Chicago volition beryllium harmless again, and soon," Trump wrote on societal media, pursuing a bid of shootings implicit the Labor Day weekend that near 8 radical dormant and dozens wounded.
Federal forces expected to get successful Chicago this week
Federal officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security were scheduled to get astatine Illinois' Naval Station Great Lakes connected Tuesday.
Officers would stay determination done Sept. 30, according to an interior email obtained by aggregate outlets.
The subject base, located astir 35 miles northbound of Chicago, would springiness national officers “limited enactment successful the signifier of facilities, infrastructure, and different logistical needs,” a spokesperson told the Associated Press past week.
Leaders and residents of the nation's third-largest metropolis person protested Trump's idea to grip Chicago the aforesaid mode helium did D.C. — taking implicit the metropolis police, deploying National Guard members connected the streets and conducting sweeps of the city.
Chicago leaders reason Trump takeover
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Saturday reaffirming that Chicago constabulary officers reply to him, not to the national government.
While Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Sunday that ICE would soon grow operations successful Chicago, she said sending the National Guard alongside them is yet up to Trump.
“National defender troops, immoderate benignant of troops, connected the streets of an American metropolis don’t beryllium unless there’s an insurrection, unless determination is an exigency — determination is not,” said Gov. JB Pritzker.
Former Chicago constabulary Superintendent Eddie Johnson told NewsNation that metropolis leaders were “doing a beauteous bully job” connected convulsive transgression but that helium believes they should enactment with the National Guard if troops bash arrive.
“Most radical successful the metropolis astir apt wouldn’t privation the National Guard … if I were the mayor, I would telephone the president and spot however this could enactment for some parties,” Johnson said.
