Illinois leaders push back on Trump’s potential National Guard plan for Chicago

Illinois leaders are back to President Donald Trump’s proposal that he may be sent in the National Guard forces to the state to eliminate the Chicago crime – similar to what he did to treat crime in Washington.

While Trump has been offered that many other cities in the United States – including Chicago and New York – can also receive a flow from the National Guard forces to reduce crime, Illinois leaders are highlighting the alarm and explaining that these forces are not welcome in Lincoln.

senator Tami Dacherworth, D-Il, said, one time, one time, that forcing the army, who is not the defendant on Chicago, to intimidate the Americans in their societies does not make our nation stronger, it simply distracts the army from executing its basic mission of keeping Americans safe from the real opponents who want to harm. ”

The White House is accused by Pritzker, Illinois Deadman from the whine while the Chicago crime is heading

Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, a democratic, said on Monday that this step is “unconstitutional” and “non -American”.

“Donald Trump wants to use the army to occupy an American city, punish the dissidents and register political points,” said Pritzker. “If this is happening in any other country, we will not face any problem calling it what it is – seizing dangerous power.”

Meanwhile, the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson said the crime had decreased in Chicago. Specifically, he said that the city last year reduced murders by more than 30 %, 35 % theft and shooting by approximately 40 %.

Trump week, which consists of the crime agenda, published the potential guards in Chicago

The mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson said the crime had decreased in Chicago. (Charles Rex Arbogast/The Assocated Press)

“The problem with the president’s approach is that it is unjustified, unjustified,” Johnson said in a statement on Friday. “The illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago has the ability to confirm tensions between the population and enforce the law when we know that confidence between the police and the population is a foundation to build safer societies.”

However, the White House published a fact on Monday, pointing to local reports that Chicago had most of the murders in any American city over 13 years, starting in 2024.

On August 11, Trump revealed plans to deploy forces from the National Guard, the capital and to the federal character to the Capital Police Department to treat crime in Washington. Since then, Trump has been floating that he may deploy the National Guard forces in other cities in the United States, and he specifically has rotated in Chicago and visited the city as a “killing field.”

“We will enter, we’ll get Chicago within one week, and perhaps less,” Trump told reporters on Monday morning. “But within one week, we will not face a crime in Chicago, like the lack of a crime in the capital.”

On Tuesday, Trump made similar comments and said he hoped to contact him with Pritzker and ask him to send the National Guard forces.

The Mayor of Chicago calls Trump’s National Guard plan “more flagrant violation of our constitution”

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker speaks to correspondents in front of the Trump Tower in Chicago, condemning a possible plan by the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard forces in the city. (Brian Cassela/Chicago Tribune)

“Everyone knows that Chicago is currently hell,” Trump said at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “Everyone knows.”

The National Guard forces are reserve forces that are exploited to address federal and state operations, including natural disasters. While most of them supervise most of them by state governments, the federal government oversees the National Guard of Colombia. However, Trump deployed California National Guard forces in a controversial way to Los Angeles in response to immigration riots there – bypassing California Governor Gavin News.

Newsom, a democratic, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to federalize the National Guard to respond to these riots, and described this step as a “unambiguous step towards tyranny.”