Is Trump declaring war on Chicago? Everything to know about his National Guard deployments and ICE raids

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7 weeks ago

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00:00We have a governor that thinks it's wonderful when 50 people in a short period of time were

00:04murdered in Chicago.

00:06Over 200 people were hit.

00:09And so we send in the National Guard — you know what?

00:13We send in what's ever necessary.

00:15People don't care.

00:16They don't want crime in their cities.

00:19President Trump has mobilized 300 National Guard troops to Chicago to deal with what

00:24he says is out-of-control crime in the Democratic stronghold.

00:28The deployment comes as anti-ice protests have intensified in the Windy City.

00:32Demonstrators have been clashing with federal agents since last month when U.S. Immigration

00:36and Customs Enforcement launched Operation Midway Blitz, an initiative aimed at targeting criminal

00:42illegal immigrants who fed safe flock to Chicago to seek protection under the state's sanctuary

00:47policies — and which they announced they were doing in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old

00:52Illinois woman who was killed in a drunk-driving hit-and-run car wreck caused by an illegal immigrant,

00:57Julio Cuckoole Bowl.

00:59Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has vocally opposed Trump's federal deployment as an

01:03abuse of power by the president.

01:05We must now start calling this what it is — Trump's invasion, the governor said in

01:10a post on X.

01:11The brave men and women who serve in our National Guards must not be used as political props.

01:16This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness, he wrote.

01:21The Democratic governor also claimed that he was kept in the dark about the White House's

01:25plan, writing that,

01:27Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended Trump's decision in an appearance on Fox News

01:36on Sunday, going as far as to declare Chicago a war zone.

01:41This is a war zone.

01:43His city is a war zone, and he's lying so that criminals can go in there and destroy

01:47people's lives.

01:49According to the Department of Homeland Security, protesters are using vehicles to attack ICE

01:54agents in the Chicago area.

01:56On Saturday, officers were conducting a patrol on the city's south side when they were

02:00attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars, the Department of Homeland Security

02:05said.

02:06Officers exited their trapped vehicle when a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the

02:11officers to fire defensively, according to DHS, which called the incident an evolving situation,

02:17and noted FBI agents were currently on the scene.

02:20The suspect, who is a U.S. citizen, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, Department spokeswoman

02:26Tricia McLaughlin said.

02:28The agents were located about 15 miles from an ICE processing center in the Chicago suburb of

02:33Broadview, a site that's been a hotbed of civil unrest when the ambush began.

02:38More than a dozen protesters have been arrested near the ICE facility since Friday, according

02:42to Fox News.

02:44Noam has also taken issue with Chicago's treatment of Border Patrol and ICE officers, claiming

02:49they were blocked from using public restrooms, and posting a video on Friday showing a clip

02:53from Benny Johnson, revealing how she was shamefully denied entry into a Broadview government building.

02:58Can I allow you some restrooms?

02:59I love you to knock.

03:01Again?

03:02Okay.

03:03Okay.

03:04Great.

03:06Interesting.

03:07That's what Governor Pritzker says is cooperation.

03:12Pritzker, meanwhile, appeared on CNN, where he painted the situation in the city in a much

03:16different light.

03:17My message to Kristi Noam is clear, get out of Chicago, he wrote in a post linking to the

03:22interview.

03:23They raided a building in the middle of the night in South Shore, 130 people that were

03:28emptied out of this building, they were going after a few gang members, and instead they broke

03:34windows, they broke down doors, they ransacked the place, and there were people that were

03:38held, I mean elderly people, and children zip-tied. Elderly people held for three hours at a time,

03:45they are the ones that are making it a war zone.

03:48They need to get out of Chicago.

03:50If they're not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what the President

03:53said they were going to do, they need to get the heck out.

03:57President Trump has been threatening a federal crackdown in Chicago for some time.

04:00In early September, he released a truth social post parroting an infamous line from the film

04:06Apocalypse Now.

04:07I love the smell of deportations in the morning, the text on the image read.

04:12Along with Shypocalypse Now, Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department

04:17of War, the Post declared.

04:20The President has not been shy about invoking the Insurrection Act in his battle against

04:24Blue States, which authorizes the President to deploy military forces inside the U.S. to

04:30suppress rebellion or domestic violence or to enforce the law in certain situations.

04:35It's one of the most extreme emergency powers available to a U.S. President.

04:40In June, he sent National Guard troops and marines to Los Angeles as protests raged against

04:45ICE operations.

04:47In August, he declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. and deployed National Guard

04:51to the nation's capital.

04:53He also ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon in a move that

04:57was temporarily blocked by a judge late Sunday, who ruled the action unlawful and unconstitutional.

05:04The Justice Department has made indications that it will be appealing the ruling with arguments

05:08that the President retains authority under federal law to deploy National Guard forces

05:12in cases of domestic unrest.

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