Donald Trump has moved to deploy the National Guard in another city authorizing 300 troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago, where the government said that the border patrol agents fired and wounded a woman while fired by someone who tried to run over them.
The White House spokesman, Abigail Jackson, confirmed that the president had authorized to use members of the Illinois National Guard, citing what he called “violent disturbances and illegality” continuous “that local leaders have not stifled.
“President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the illegality that affects US cities,” Jackson said.
Illinois Democratic governor JB Pritzker said the guard had received a warning of the early pentagon in the day. He called the unnecessary movement and “a manufactured performance, not a serious effort to protect public safety.”
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“This morning, the Trump administration department gave me an ultimatum: call your troops, or we will,” said Pritzker in a statement. “It is absolutely scandalous and not American to demand that a governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”
He added: “They will get the workers’ workers out of their regular works and far from their families to participate in a manufactured performance, not a serious effort to protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been treated for security. It is about control.
“This lawsuit follows unprecedented aggression against citizens and residents of Illinois.”
Trump’s plan to deploy troops occurs just when there is a serious offensive against immigration by immigration of the United States and the application of Customs (ICE) in Chicago, and the operation is found with fierce outrage of local civic groups and opposition by local Democrats.
In his statement, Pritzker also pointed out that the local, state and county police have been coordinating to guarantee the security of the Broadview of the ICE on the outskirts of Chicago.
Federal officials reported that the arrests of 13 people who protest on Friday near the installation, which have often been directed during the increase in the application of the administration of the this autumn.
Meanwhile, the National Security Department recognized the shooting of a woman on the southwest side of Chicago.
He said in a statement that the border patrol agents in the patrol “were rammed by vehicles and encased by 10 cars”, and when they left their trapped vehicle, “a suspect tried to run over them, forcing the officers to shoot the defensive.”
The woman who was shot was an American citizen and was armed with a semi -automatic weapon, said DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, and pointed out that the woman was accused in a customs intelligence newsletter and border protection of the United States last week of Dooxing agents.
The woman was treated and discharged in the afternoon, according to the Mount Sinai hospital. No officer were seriously injured, McLaughlin said.
The shooting occurs after federal immigration agents fired last month and killed a Mexican immigrant in a Chicago suburb after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop and hit an officer with his car.
Chicago is one of the cities of the United States where Trump has deployed or threatened to deploy the National Guard and other troops to help monitor the repression of immigration, or, in some cases, respond to inflated claims on crime levels.
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of National Security, and Gregory Bovino, head of the Border Patrol sector, visited the Broadview Ice facilities in the Suburbs of Chicago, which has become the site of escalations of federal agents against protesters and journalists.
Noem promised on social networks on Saturday afternoon to send additional troops to Chicago: “I am deploying more special operations to control the scene. The reinforcements are on their way. If you see an agent of the law today, thank them.”
The Trump administration has attacked Chicago with the Federal Police as of August, falsely stating that there has been an increase in crime in the city in recent years.
Since then, there have been reports of the increasingly aggressive ice application in the communities, including the helicopters that loom over the apartments and arrests of local officials and candidates for charges that protest against operations.
Trump has also repeatedly deployed National Guard troops in the cities of the United States, from Los Angeles to Washington DC, despite the fact that the federal law generally prohibits the use of the military for the National Police. The continuous pattern of military occupations in the American soil has generated a general concern for the politicization of the United States army.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, according to judicial documents.
In the restriction order published on Saturday, the American district judge Karin Immmorct, nominated by Trump, according to Oregon’s statement that Trump deploying federalized troops of the National Guard to Portland would probably inflamed instead of calming the protests, as he did in 2020.
With Associated Press
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