President Trump appeared to as soon as once more threaten sending troops to Chicago for a widespread immigration and crime crackdown just like that seen in Los Angeles when the Nationwide Guard was not too long ago deployed there.
In a put up on Fact Social, Mr. Trump shared a screenshot that reads “‘I really like the odor of deportations within the morning …’ Chicago about to search out out why it is referred to as the Division of WAR.” The AI-generated picture seems to parody the film “Apocalypse Now.”
Mr. Trump has focused Chicago and different Democrat-led cities for expanded federal intervention. His administration has stated it can step up immigration enforcement within the Windy Metropolis, as he did in Los Angeles, and would deploy Nationwide Guard troops to assist combat crime. Along with sending troops to Los Angeles in June, Mr. Trump deployed them final month in Washington, D.C., as a part of his unprecedented regulation enforcement takeover of the nation’s capital.
A federal court docket in California dominated this week that the Trump administration violated federal regulation when it deployed Guard and active-duty U.S Marines to Los Angeles. U.S. District Choose Charles Breyer discovered that the administration violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits using the navy for home regulation enforcement.
Though particulars concerning the promised Chicago operation have been sparse, native opposition is already widespread and is constructing within the suburbs. State and metropolis leaders have stated they plan to sue the Trump administration.
“We’re getting into. I did not say when, we’re getting into,” Mr. Trump stated in an Oval Workplace occasion Tuesday, after a reporter requested if he plans to ship the Guard to Chicago.
Mr. Trump didn’t specify whether or not his administration will primarily ship Guard forces or federal regulation enforcement brokers to Chicago.
On Sunday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responded to Mr. Trump’s Fact Social put up, saying in a put up X, “The President of the USA is threatening to go to conflict with an American metropolis.”
“This isn’t a joke. This isn’t regular,” Pritzker wrote. “Donald Trump is not a strongman, he is a scared man. Illinois will not be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
The town’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, in a put up on X, stated Mr. Trump’s threats are “beneath the glory of our nation.”
“However the actuality is that he needs to occupy our metropolis and break our Structure,” he wrote. “We should defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by defending one another and defending Chicago from Donald Trump.”
An inside authorities memo obtained by CBS Information this week confirmed that the Division of Homeland Safety requested the Pentagon to accommodate roughly 250 federal brokers and 140 automobiles on the Naval Station Nice Lakes – the biggest navy base in Illinois and the Navy’s largest coaching station.
The request was formally made final week, and Homeland Safety personnel and tools started arriving on the naval station earlier this week, a U.S. official accustomed to the operation informed CBS Information. The naval station is positioned about 50 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan.
The interior memo stated Homeland Safety officers would wish the bottom for 30 days, suggesting the immigration crackdown in Chicago may final for weeks.
In an announcement to CBS Information, DHS stated it can “go to wherever these felony unlawful aliens are — together with Chicago, Boston, and different cities.”
“Below President Trump and Secretary Noem, nowhere is a secure haven for felony unlawful aliens,” the division stated. “For those who come to our nation illegally and break our legal guidelines, we’ll hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you’ll by no means return.”
Activists, church teams and colleges within the nation’s third-largest metropolis have been getting ready for the operation. Organizers postponed a downtown Mexican Independence Day pageant scheduled for later this month due to fears locally concerning the deliberate immigration crackdown. They didn’t set a brand new date.
Joe Walsh,
Kaia Hubbard and
Camilo Montoya-Galvez
contributed to this report.
