Chicago’s Mayor Claps Again at Trump Deeming the Metropolis the Subsequent ICE Goal

President  Donald  Trump is planning Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) operations in a few of the nation’s largest cities, together with Chicago, which an unnamed Trump administration official advised Rolling Stone “is subsequent, in the event that they go too far.” However the mayor of Chicago — one of many cities on Trump’s listing — insists he is not having it.

“No matter is critical…We must always all be dedicated to doing simply that,” Johnson mentioned throughout a Metropolis Corridor information convention Tuesday (June 17). “Whether or not it’s within the courts, whether or not it’s within the streets or with coverage, we’re going to proceed to defend and arise for working folks.”

Chicago has been on Trump’s radar for some time now with the president describing the town as a “struggle zone.” Final week the town’s officers confirmed Chicago is among the locations the place Trump is sending ICE tactical groups.

Trump and his administration have praised the current deployment of Marines and Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles as a mannequin they intend to copy in different cities, advancing the president’s anti-immigration and mass deportation agenda.

In a Fact Social submit, Trump known as on ICE to “broaden efforts to detain and deport Unlawful Aliens in America’s largest Cities, resembling Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, the place Thousands and thousands upon Thousands and thousands of Unlawful Aliens reside. These, and different such cities, are the core of the Democrat Energy Middle, the place they use Unlawful Aliens to broaden their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and develop the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Advantages from Laborious Working American Residents.”

Metropolis officers in Chicago are bracing for tense encounters with legislation enforcement amid heightened ICE and Nationwide Guard exercise.

“There will probably be tactical groups, mini-tanks, different instruments they use wherein they plan to do raids, as we noticed in Los Angeles,” the mayor’s chief of employees, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, advised the media. “With arms, with additionally chemical brokers, we now have seen them in full riot gear. We have now seen them totally hid.”

Nonetheless, Johnson defended the massive variety of Chicago residents who participated in a current peaceable protest in opposition to what he described as “the authoritarian ways of the Trump administration.”

Johnson emphasised that Trump’s efforts should not about bettering People’ security however quite advancing his mass deportation plans.

“Ripping households aside and disappearing folks don’t make our cities safer,” Johnson mentioned to Rolling Stone. “These unconstitutional actions incite concern in our immigrant communities and trigger extra issues than they resolve.”

He continued: “Chicagoans know that immigrants are a crucial a part of the wealthy social material of our metropolis. We are going to all the time struggle for the rights and dignity of all Chicagoans [and] proceed to work with community-based organizations and authorized teams to make sure that all Chicagoans know their rights.”