- Trump threatens to jail Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor.
- National Guard troops gather outside Chicago despite resistance.
- Former FBI chief who is due in court to be exposed to criminal charges.
Chicago/Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the prison Chicago’s mayor and governor of Illinois, both Democrats when his administration was prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third largest US city.
Neither Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Illinois Governor JB Pritzker have been accused of criminal wrongdoing, although both have emerged as prominent opponents of Trump’s immigration croping and deployment of national guard troops into democratic prone cities.
Trump’s call to capture the two elected officials is coming when another high-profile political rival, former FBI director James Comey, had to appear in court to be exposed to criminal charges who have been criticized broadly as slim.
Trump has often called for imprisonment on his opponents since he first entered politics in 2015, but Comey is the first to be prosecuted.
On his social media platform, Trump accused Johnson and Pritzker of not protecting immigration managers who have been in operation in Chicago.
“Chicago mayor must be in prison for not protecting Is Officers! Governor Pritzker too!” Trump wrote and referred to American immigration and customs enforcement staff (ICE).
Johnson signed an executive order on Monday and created an “ice -free zone” that prohibits federal immigration agents to use urban property in their operations.
“This is not the first time Trump has tried to get a black man unfairly arrested. I’m not going anywhere,” he said on social media.
Pritzker, a potential democratic presidential candidate from 2028, also said he would not return. “Trump now calls for arrest of elected representatives controlling his power. What else is left on the road to full -blown authoritarianism?”
Trump has promised to exploit the power of the federal government to target his enemies. Apart from Comey, his Ministry of Justice is investigating several other high -profile critics. Everyone has denied wrongdoing, and Comey is expected to invoke not to blame for charges of lying to Congress.
Meanwhile, a federal judge gave up that ICE had violated a 2022 agreement limiting the Agency’s ability in several Midwestern states to arrest immigrants without a justification, following an opinion that could limit some of the aggressive tactics adopted by ICE since Trump returned to Embed.
US district judge Jeffrey Cummings said the agency had incorrectly declared that the deal was canceled and expanded it until February.
Troops to Chicago
Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers have gathered on an army facility outside Chicago over the objections of Pritzker, Johnson and other Democratic leaders in the state. Trump has threatened to deploy troops into several US cities, which he said last week could serve as “training areas” for the armed forces.
A Reuters/Ipsos vote published Wednesday found that most Americans are against the deployment of troops without an external threat.
Trump has ordered guard troops to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, after his previous implementations to Los Angeles and Washington, DC. In both cases, he has defied a fierce opposition from Democratic mayors and governors who say that Trump’s claims of lawlessness and violence do not reflect reality. He has also said he will send troops to Memphis.
“My goal is very simple. Stop crime in America!” He wrote on his social media platform.
Violent crime has fallen into many US cities since a point of the Kovid era, and National Guard troops have so far been largely used to protect federal facilities, not fighting street crime.
Protests over Trump’s immigration policy in Chicago and Portland had largely been peaceful and limited in size, according to local officials, far from the conditions described by Trump administration officials.
At an immigration facility in BroadView, Illinois, outside Chicago, four protesters held and sang slogans on Wednesday in front of a wall of heavily armed officers. The administration has said that the National Guard troops could be sent to protect the facility, but no one had arrived in early afternoon.
Pritzker has accused Trump of trying to induce violence to justify further militarization and his state has sued to stop the deployment. A federal judge on Monday allowed the deployment to continue for the time being. Another federal judge has blocked the deployment to Portland.
Trump has threatened to invoke an anti-insurrection law to equate all court decisions that blocked him, which were last invoked during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
