Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Sept. 2 that they will fight President Donald Trump’s plan to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago, saying it would amount to a “military occupation.”
“None of this is about fighting crime or making Chicago safer,” Pritzker said during a press conference with Johnson, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, all Democrats.
Accusing Trump of “testing his power and producing a political drama,” Pritzer added, “We are ready to fight troop deployments in court and we will do everything possible to ensure that agents operating inside the confines of this state do so in a legal and ethical manner.”…