(Chicago) The American Democrats warned on Sunday against a “invasion” of Chicago by the soldiers, where Donald Trump wants to deploy thousands of federal agents, officially for his crusade against immigration and crime.
Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker, one of the opponents in view of the Republican President, accused the billionaire, whom he had already dealt with “dictator”, of seeking to question this type of deployment the mid-term legislative elections of 2026.
After Los Angeles in June and Washington since mid-August, the Trump administration is threatening to dispatch federal police and military, such as the National Guard reservists, an army body, in other Democratic cities: Chicago, New York, Baltimore or Boston.
Referring to crime in Chicago, Donald Trump attacked the “Mou and Estineer Governor of Illinois” on Saturday evening on his Truth Social network.
JB Pritzker “said he doesn’t need help prevent crime. He’s crazy! ! ! It would be better to put it back on the right path, and quickly, or we will come! “, He thundered.
“Person in the government, neither the president, nor anyone under his authority, called me or anyone in my own administration,” replied the person concerned on CBS News. Like the 49 other governors of the US states, he has authority on the national guards stationed in Illinois.
“It is therefore clear that in secret, they project an invasion by American troops,” he said, adding that justice would be seized in the event of the deployment of soldiers.
“Scare”
The mayor of Chicago, Democrat Brandon Johnson, has taken a decree supposed to curb the federal police authority if they were to land in his northern city, placed by Lake Michigan and known throughout the world.
The councilor said he was “forced to take draconian measures to protect (his) population against the widening of federal power” in this megalopolis regularly bruised by the violence of the gangs of drug trafficking.
Questioned by AFP in Chicago, CJ Jackson, an employee of an electronic cigarette shop and CBD products, finds that it is a “very good idea” to have the National Guard, because “kids are slaughtered every day”.
On the other hand, Greta, a 24 -year -old saleswoman from New York and who hides her surname, “thinks that it scares people, more than that reassures them”.
Governor Pritzker and his counterpart Wes Moore, head of the state of Maryland where Baltimore is located, also in the crosshairs, accused Donald Trump of “making crises” to justify the sending of federal forces to states held by opposition.
Mr. Moore, a rising star of the Democratic Party who violently hung on last weekend on social networks with the president, recognized on ABC News that the crime rate in Baltimore was high.
But he will oppose the deployment of the National Guard which “is not trained to make the municipal police”.
“Picking up the garbage cans”
In Washington, where they have been deployed since mid-August, armed soldiers are backed by their armored vehicles, quietly patrol in the metro or near national institutions and monuments, clean the parks.
“They collect the trash cans,” said the governor of Maryland.
It is that Mr. Trump has “other objectives” than the fight against crime, suspects Mr. Pritzker: “He would like to stop the elections in 2026”.
“He would claim that there are problems with a ballot and would then send troops on the ground to take control of it,” accused the old road of politics.
Internal security minister Kristi Noem replied to CBS News that there was already in Illinois and Chicago “of Ice’s current operations”, name of the formidable immigration police and her masked in civilian clothes who multiply the descents and expulsions of immigrants. The Trump administration “will add more federal resources,” she added, without further details.
She assured that cities and states held by the Republicans may not be spared.
