00:00There is no invasion here, there is no insurrection here, and local and state law enforcement
00:06are on the job and managing what they need to.
00:10Without my permission and against my vigorous objections, the President has federalized
00:17300 Illinois National Guard military troops and hundreds of National Guard members from
00:24Texas and he has ordered them to activate for duty in Illinois.
00:30I have called upon Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw his support for this decision and
00:36refuse to allow Texas National Guard members to be used in this way.
00:41Let me be clear, Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as
00:49pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities.
00:53I want to thank Attorney General Kwame Raul and his staff, along with my General Counsel
00:58Anne Spillane and our excellent Governor's Office legal team, for working tirelessly
01:04for weeks now to prepare federal lawsuits in anticipation of this unconstitutional invasion
01:11of Illinois by the federal government.
01:15Since the beginning of this invasion, families have been snatched up off the streets or removed
01:20from their homes, zip-tied and detained for hours, including especially U.S. citizens and legal
01:26residents of our state.
01:28Peaceful protesters have been hit with tear gas and shot with rubber bullets.
01:34Journalists simply reporting the facts on the ground have been targeted and arrested.
01:40U.S. citizens, including children, have been traumatized and detained.
01:45Why?
01:46To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act, so that he can send military troops to
01:54our city.
01:56He wants to justify and normalize the presence of armed soldiers under his direct command.
02:03Donald Trump's deranged depiction of Chicago as a hellhole, a war zone, and the worst and
02:11most dangerous city in the world was just complete BS.
02:16He clearly has decided to declare war on a great American city that has the lowest homicide
02:23rate in 60 years in a state that has record employment and near-record tourism.
02:31And he's done it for some unspoken reason.
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