An executive order bars the city's police department from collaborating with federal officers conducting civil immigration enforcement operations and from working with U.S. military personnel on police patrols. The order follows federal threats to increase immigration enforcement and to deploy federal law enforcement or the National Guard to Chicago. The mayor described potential federal deployments as outside constitutional bounds and warned against militarized actions that could separate families or target vulnerable residents. President Trump criticized Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on social media and suggested federal forces could be sent to fight crime. Governor Pritzker called the prospect an attack on the American people.
"We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart," Johnson said. "We do not want grandmothers thrown into the back of unmarked vans. We don't want to see homeless Chicagoans harassed or disappeared by federal agents."
"Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn't need help in preventing CRIME," Trump wrote. "He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!"
"On Sunday, Pritzker said on CBS's Face the Nation that the possibility of sending the U.S. military to the streets of an American city amounts to an "attack on the American people by the President of the United States."
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