In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment
By Heather Schlitz and Renee Hickman
Chicago (Reuters) -Bins protesters packed the streets in the city center of Chicago on Monday, singing, chanting and shaking the threats to fill the filling threats with the national guard troops and federal immigration representatives of US President Donald Trump.
The march was one of the protests of approximately 1,000 billionaire workers across the country during the US Labor Day holiday. However, Chicago’s show was definitely more pointed as the inhabitants opposed Trump’s Chicago in a speech similar to those who were later in a speech similar to those who were the two other democratic cities on Los Angeles and Washington DC.
Speaking with the crowd, Mayor Brandon Johnson promised that Chicago would resist the federal rape.
“This is the city that will defend the country, dedi he said, cheered out of the protesters who waved the blue striped Chicago flags.
As the crowd passed through the city, Diners, who carried children on their shoulders and children on their shoulders, supported their fists and cars, sitting outside in local restaurants and cafes. Organizers estimated that 5,000 to 10,000 people participated, but Reuters could not confirm the size immediately with the city officials.
Protesters said Trump’s threat of sending national guards and additional ice agents.
The 72 -year -old Filiberto Ramirez was afraid of violence if additional ice agents came to the city. “Do we think it’s a problem? Yes, Ram Ramirez said. “I hope nobody gets hurt.”
In recent weeks, Trump chose Chicago for a crime of violence and called the city as a “mess”, “a hell hole” and “killing area”. On Monday, however, the protest Chicago people, the national guards did not feel that they did not feel a solution for the crime in the city.
“There’s a crime problem,” said 67 -year -old Yvonne Spears, “But the national guards need to fight for us, not against us.”
According to city crime data, murder rates in the third largest city of the country have fallen in recent years. And 2025 Chicago University Survey, although about half of the Chicago people felt insecure in night neighborhoods, many protesters said in a statement on Monday that they felt largely safe in the city.
The city and the state leaders prepared measures to protect Chicago from federal troops, and they would initiate a series of lawsuits that challenged the 19th century law, which prohibited the law of law experts that they would violate the US constitution and forcing the army to force the internal laws.
Mayor Johnson said on Saturday that the Chicago police would not cooperate with federal agents or national guard troops and would not direct all police officers to wear official uniforms and not to wear masks. In the meantime, the immigrant rights groups worked to rent more lawyers, by making immigration hotlins personnel and starting more “know your rights” training, and worked to strengthen their defenses among worn immigration application threats.
42 -year -old Andrea Reyes, referring to the city policies that prohibit its government from participating in federal immigration sanctions, “The people here are proud of being a shelter city,” he said.
“I don’t think it will go well if the national guard comes here.”
(Reporting by Heather Schlitz and Renee Hickman; editing by Sandra Maler)
