After more than a month of Threats from President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday Said the Department of Homeland Security is Seeking the Deployment of 100 Military Troops to Illinois “For the Protection of Ice Personnel and Facilities.”
The Governor Delivered the News Surrounded by Mayor Brandon Johnson, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Cook County President Tony Preckwinkle and Other Local Leaders As he spoke out borders patroling patrolling chicago chicago with guns – arrests and arrests Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facility in West Suburban BroadView.
Pritzker Said the Illinois National Guard obtained a memo that sent to the defensive department that soough to request 100 military personnel for illinois. IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT TYPE OF TROOPS WOULD BE DELLOYED OR WEND. But Pritzker Likened the Memo to One Sent by the Defense Department to Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Sunday, Which Called 200 Members of the Oregon of National Guard In Federal Service for A 60-Day Deployment, Acciting to Oreglic Broadcasting.
“What I HAVE BEEN WARNING IS NOW BEING realized,” Pritzker Said. “One Thing is Clear: None of what (President) Trump is doing is Making Illinois Safer.”
Gov. JB Pritzker Tells Reporters Monday that the Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security has asc as the defensive department to ‘Military troops’ to Illinois Ice agents involved in the ongoing campaigign in the chicago area.
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The Governor’s Office is Preparing for the Possility of an Immint Arrival of Troops. Christian Mitchell, Pritzker’s Running Mate and His Former Deputy Governor, is an active membrane of the Illinois National Guard.
Pritzker Said the Feds Are “CLAIMING A NEED FOR THE PROTECTION OF ICE Personnel and Facilities” for the deployment.
IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT PROMPTED THE MEMO’S DIRECTIVE – But Two People Were Each Charged With Forcibly Assulating and Resisting Federal Officers During Protests Last Weekend Outside the BroadView Facility. Ray Collins and HIS Partner, Jocelyne Robledo, Each Allegedly Carriad A Loaded 9 mm Semiautomatic Pistol Saturday, But Authorities Confirmed they “Lawful Permits.”
At the Same Time, BroadView Police have opened an investigation into federal agents after an allegedly unprovoked attack on a cbs news chicago reporter’s Vehicle Sunday. In a Report Sunday Night, CBS Said Reporter Asal Rezaei was Alone, Driving Her Truck to the Facility Early Sunday Wen a Masked Federal Agent Shot Pepper at Her From About 50 Feet Inside The Detention Facility’s Fence. There are no protests or protests in the area at the time.
Federal Officers Have FIRED rubber pellets and chemical irritants ino -cowds of protests outside the Ice facility where immigrants are being held in suburban broadView. The Compound Has Been Ground Zero for Protests Since the Trump Administration Announce the Launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” on Sept. 8, Bringing a Federal Immigration Officers to the Chicago Area to Conduct Raids and Arrests.
“In BroadView, People non-Violently Holding Sigens and Chanting Against Brutality, Expressing Their FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS HAVE BEEN REGULARly with chemical agents like tear gas, Pepper spray, rubber bullets and flash bangs,” Pritzker Said on Monday. “Agents Reportedly unholstered their Guns and pointed say at protests. In their Own Words, Ice Intended to Unleash ‘As *** Show’ in the BroadView community with the provocation and Acting Like Jack-Booted Thugs.”
The Governor Learned of the Memo “Minutes before” and Planned to Step Bead Media to Respond to aekend of Increas Ice Activity Across Chicago.
Trump has threatened to send troops to chicago for More than a month, Citting the City’s Crime Rate – which has seen a decline in violent crime and its Murder rates. But dhs and attorney general pam bond have amplified their messaging that ice agents are under Attack.
Pritzker urged chicagoans to record any interactions with Ice agents on their Phones, and “Narrate What You SEE, Put it on Social Media.
“With one voice, we are telling this unwarrant and unconstitutional Occupation by Ice and Potentially by Military Troops to Get Out of Chicago,” Pritzker Said. “You are not helping us.”
Pritzker Called the Need to Protect Ice Facilities a “Pretext, Again, for Troops in the City, for normalizing the militarization of our quotes. And we just won’t allow that.”
Johnson Called Armed Agents in downtown chicago a “stunt that has no not.
“THIS IS ABOUT POLITICS, MONEY AND POWER. The President is used to be militarized force the exact way he intended – to advance his political goals. Johnson Said. “He wants to provoke conflict so that he can use this as a pretext to the more federal agents into City. What we saw yes to absolute disgration.”
Both raoul and pritzker said a memo was not Enough to spark a legal challenge, “But i know that there are action in waking and a lawsuit,” The Governor Said.
Raoul Said His Office was “prepared” to file a suit should troops be deployed.
Raoul Said Illinois Wauld File a Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration “If the Evidence Follows, the Pattern Follows What We’ve Seen in Oregon.” The State of Oregon and the City of Portland have already filed a federal suite, calling the deployment of National Guard Troops Unlawful.
“Clearly, this deployment of the federal officer … is meant to provoke chicago,” Raoul Said. “What the President is hoping to do is foment chaos by incating out-of-control protests. SO i urge illinoisans, don’t take the bait.”
American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois Spokesperson ed Yohnka Said the Federal Government has offered details about which “Troops” COULD BE SENT, MEANING “IMPOSSIBLE TO ASSESS The President Has Not IsSued.
“That Said, the Most Important Thing to recall is that there is no Emergency that Justifies Sending Additional Force Into Chicago,” Yohnka Said. “It is just swim necessary. It is imported to recall that there is a Legal prohibration on ussing US Military Personnel to Conduct Routine Police Activities Domestically.”
Dhs and ice did not immediately respond to a request for comment monday afternion.
Contribing: Nader Issa, Jon Seidel, Violet Miller
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