U.S. | Mayor of Chicago sues Trump Administration to block National Guard deployment

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In the United States, the Governor of the State of Illinois stated the Trump Administration is using National Guard members as Political Pawns, after the President continues ordering the deployment of the forces to several cities. More details with our correspondent Jorge Gestoso. teleSUR

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00:00Now we go to the United States.

00:01The governor of the state of Illinois stated that the Trump administration is using National

00:06Guard members as political pawns after the president continues ordering the deployment

00:11of the forces to several cities.

00:13More details with our correspondent Jorge Gestosa.

00:19This afternoon the governor of Illinois, where you have the city of Chicago, has declared

00:27that President Trump is using the National Guard, the soldiers, the members as political

00:34pawns for political reasons.

00:37In reality, according to him, there is no such crisis.

00:41There is not a war zone in the case of the city of Chicago.

00:46And therefore, there is no need the deployment of the federal troops.

00:52So much so that he is suing the government of President Trump.

00:57And the same thing is doing the mayor of Chicago, who today he was signing, precisely, a communique

01:08where he says that he is declaring ice-free zones.

01:14And it is meaning that it is not just a little space.

01:20He says that ice-free zones are the whole city of Chicago and including, for example, school,

01:29parkings, parks, et cetera, et cetera, where any type of federal research or raid could be

01:38done.

01:39So he's inviting the regular private citizens to put sort of this place in their properties

01:47in order to discourage the ice people to produce these raids that they are being criticized for

01:55being too violent and non-necessary.

01:59At the same time, for the second day in a row, a federal judge has declared that it's prohibited

02:12the displacement, the presence of National Guards in the city of Portland.

02:18And now she added that not only in the case of Portland, but in any city of the United States.

02:27So in Marceau, we know that the administration of President Trump has reacted that it's going

02:33to appeal those situations.

02:35And they repeat what they consider is extremely grave situation, given the fact that, according

02:43to their view, the security of the property of the, in this case, ice or the properties

02:52of the people who take care of the properties are in danger.

02:55And therefore, the state, the government has the obligation to keep those properties under

03:03control.

03:04And many, according to them, many of the people who are participating in the protest, they're

03:11members of Antifa, anti-fascist movement.

03:15And therefore, they declare that are domestic terrorists.

03:20So the situation is in the center stage of the life of the United States today.

03:27And definitely there is a battle in terms of courts and in terms of civil sues and civil declarations

03:37of what's going on, on and on.

03:39So depending on which side you want to hear, there are totally opposite situations that realizes

03:48and shows the level of polarization that today is leaving the government and the politics in

03:55the United States.

03:57We get back to you now.

03:58We get back to you now.

U.S. | Mayor of Chicago sues Trump Administration to block National Guard deployment

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