‘We’re going in’: Trump sending troops to Chicago
US President Donald Trump said he would send the national guard troops to fight the crime in Chicago, which would make an extraordinary effort to militize the third largest city of the country and establish a legal war with local authorities who promised to fight such a movement.
Trump’s comments come only a few hours after a federal judge prevented Trump from using the army to fight the crime in California.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said that the Trump administration had “collected ice agents and military vehicles and calls it more ice agents on the road” and called their actions “dangerous and non -American”.
Since his task, Trump has tried to expand the army’s role in the US land, he says that critics have expanded a dangerous executive authority that could lead to tensions between military and ordinary citizens.
“We’re going in. When I didn’t say it, but we’re going in, Tr Trump said to the journalists at the Oval Office on Tuesday.
Trump said at some point that “Pritzker would ask him to call and request a soldier,” but he said, “We’ll still do it.”
“We have the right to do this, Tr Trump said, adding that the federal intervention would reach Baltimore.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said that during the weekend Chicago police will not cooperate with any national guard or federal agent if Trump deployed.
On Tuesday, Pritzker said that the administration organized together with Federal Agents from Texas National Guards, ICE, Customs and Border Control, the Ministry of Internal Security and other agencies for deploying in Illinois.
Pritzker, a democrat who floats as a possible 2028 presidential candidate, said that Chicago may expect to see similar scenes with those played on DC, Los Angeles and Washington, where military staff were already deployed.
Trump threatens to expand the federal edition of the US cities under the leadership of Democratic Cities to Chicago, and the city officials use the presidential power to deal with crime even when murder, arms violence and theft falls.
If Trump uses a provision known as Chapter 12406 to send national guard troops from the Republican -led states to democratic castles, he faces legal difficulties.
At the request of Trump, some Republican governors sent hundreds of national guards to Washington.
Although the official data showed that the crime has fallen in the city, the President described the capital that a wave of crime was in the grating.
Chicago has long had a high level of weapon violence, but the crime, including the murder, declined last year.
