Chicago – An armed scene, mortal and mine Border border agents Conducting arrests near the famous Shicago landmarks in the center of Chicago has swamped concerns about the growth of the Trump administration Federal intervention Through our cities.
On Monday, Illinois leaders warned against the deployment of the National Guard. The residents met in the third largest city in the country to escalate a rude weekend of immigration enforcement tactics with anger, fear and new demands for discrimination.
“It looks unanimous,” said Chicago Alderman Brandon Riley, who represents the city center in the city council. On Sunday, it was considered a “OPP photo” of President Donald Trump, Other leaders are echoing.
Memphis, Tennessee, and Portland, OregonIt was also prepared to increase federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, Louisiana ruler requested the deployment of the National Guard in New Orleans and other cities.
Trump called on the expansion of federal immigration agents and the National Guard forces to the necessary American cities, and the bombing of Democrats crime And lax migration policies. After the crime campaign in Colombia Province And enforcement of immigration in Los AngelesHe referred to Portland as “arrogant war” and threatened The power of the end of the world In Chicago.
“Whether it is happening here in the city or suburbs, all this is the same for us,” Patrol border agent Gregory Boveno He said in Chicago.
Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi issued a memorandum that also directed component agencies within the Ministry of Justice, including the FBI, to help protect American immigration and customs facilities, including in Chicago and Portland.
Below is a snapshot in terms of matters standing with federal law enforcement activity in Chicago, Portland, Memphis and New Orleans.
Many Chicago residents were already unstable After migration campaign It started earlier this month. The agents targeted heavy immigrants and Latin largely Regions.
Trump has Pies When the army is sent, but the Democratic Ruler JB Pritzker said Monday it seems that the federal government will deploy 100 soldiers. Pritzker said that the National Guard in Illinois received a speech that the Ministry of Internal Security sent a memorandum to the Ministry of Defense asking the forces to protect ice and utility staff.
and Immigration Treatment Center Outside Chicago was the site of repeated protests and Adian tactics By federal agents.
Enforcement was recently escalated, as agents use boats on the Chicago River and walk on Sunday on Michigan Street and in high -end neighborhoods.
Activists and elected leaders are concerned about the discriminatory stop, especially after the US Supreme Court Raif restrictions On the rooted patrols in Los Angeles. The court wiped the road to Immigration agents To prevent people based on race, language, job or site.
“The ice runs around the episode, bothering people for not being white,” said Pritzker.
Activists said that a Latin family consisting of four individuals was led by federal agents on Sunday near the famous “cloud gate” sculpture, which is usually called “beans”. Building workers and cyclists have also been targeted.
“The city center of the city of being racist and hijacking it for immigration in broad daylight is a major escalation by the Trump administration,” said Veronica Castro with the Illinois Alliance for the Rights of Migrants and Refugees.
Bovino told Associated Press that the agents will follow “any person here illegally”, an approach that fell under the authority of immigration, known as the title 8. He told Chicago Sun Times that the appearance of a person enters into the account.
“The agent’s experience will be the intelligence that indicates the presence of illegal foreigners in a specific location or location,” he told the newspaper. “Then, clearly, the special characteristics of the individual, how it looks.”
The Ministry of National Security did not receive the messages on Monday.
When the border patrol agents walked near the city center, a few spectators nodded his head in approval and stated praise while urging the path of activists and other agents to leave.
Sherley Ziona was celebrating her twenty -fourth birthday when she saw agents. She is still wearing a pink birthday scarf, she left a lunch to follow her.
Ziona, the first of her in her family of Honduran migrants, who was born in the United States, said that she forgot everything about her birthday plans as she screams at the agents to return home.
“This is more important to me,” she said, as she grows emotional. “I celebrate my people.”
In Oregon, Democratic Prosecutor Dan Rivild submitted a request to the Federal Court on Monday in an effort to temporarily prevent the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard.
The proposal is part of a lawsuit filed on Sunday, after the state leaders received the memorandum of the Ministry of Defense, which stated that 200 members of the National Guard of the state will be placed under 60 -day federal control over “the protection of federal property, in sites where protests occur against these jobs or are likely to occur.”
The mayor of Portland Keith Wilson and Democratic Ruler Tina Kotik is among the local leaders who object to publishing.
“The placement of our army in our streets is the abuse of power and the abolition of our societies and members of our service,” Rivild said in a statement on Monday.
The ice building outside the city center in Portland has been the site of the night protests that reached its climax in June, with smaller clashes since then.
A larger crowd in the building showed Sunday. Two people were arrested, according to the authorities. The police said this followed a peaceful march earlier in the day that attracted thousands to the city center and did not see any arrests.
Some residents are already frustrated.
“The effects of violent tactics, including tear gas and jokes late at night, are shocked by residents,” said the construction of the affordable housing complex next to the ice building, including the veterans of the warriors who live there.
“Sending federal forces will not escalate the situation except. The last thing we need is an escalation,” he said in the statement.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Federal agents searched a house associated with a person claiming to have been targeting a laser in a customs helicopter and American border protection while flying over Portland on Saturday evening, the FBI said. Four people were arrested, illegally found in the country, and placed under ICE, according to the Federal Investigation Office, who did not specify the charges they face.
Memphis was in the waiting and vision position on Monday, the first day of the planned federal law planned by Trump to combat crime. There were no immediate reports on federal law enforcement on a large scale.
Some population is still, Including LatiniansExpresses the concerns that immigration agents will detain people regardless of the state of migration.
“We know that the presence of the National Guard will lead to our neighbors’ fear of helping when they need medical care, or need to report crimes, or need social services, because of this military presence,” said Sandra Beta, Community Organization.
The city has seen large numbers of violent crimes such as stealing pants and murders in recent years, but Democratic and Republican officials have noticed that the majority of the black city is witnessing a decrease this year in some groups.
Republican ruler Jeff Landre on Monday Request to publish the National Guard To New Orleans and other cities to help his country fight crime.
In a letter sent to Defense Minister Beit Higseth, Landre also praised the president’s decision to send the forces to Washington and Memphis.
Landri said that there are “high violent crime rates” in Sharifport, Batton Rouge and New Orleans, as well as a lack of application of local law.
But the crime in some of the largest cities of the state actually decreased recently, as New Orleans witnessed a sharp decrease in 2025, which was placed in a pace to obtain the lowest number of killings in more than five decades.
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The Associated Press Adrian Sanz’s book in Memphis and Clair Rush in Portland contributed to this report.