The mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Saturday aimed at reducing the authority of federal law enforcement employees and the National Guard forces who said President Donald Trump threatened to deploy in Illinois.
Johnson, a democratic, told a press conference: “We find ourselves in a situation in which we must take great immediate measures to protect our people from bypassing the federal.”
Johnson said that one of the main points in the matter is to direct the city’s Ministry of Law to use “every legal mechanism” to try to stop the possible Trump plan.
Johnson later added that he would use “each one tool at our disposal, which includes courts.”
“It is an area where at least some aspects of examination and balance in this country,” he said.
Johnson said that the executive also includes a set of other directions, including clarifying the measures that Chicago police officers can take to help implement the federal law and prohibit them from covering their faces or the police administration logo over their uniforms.
Johnson said at the press conference: “This confirms that the Chicago Police Department will not cooperate with military personnel in police patrols or enforcing civil immigration. We will not have police officers, who are working hard every day to reduce the crime, and they were removed from traffic stopping and inspection points of the president.”
Johnson’s move comes at a time when the president has already deployed federal laws and enforcement in Washington, DC, and since he has increasingly threatened to do the same in other major American cities, such as Baltimore.
Most Democratic officials have so far retracted Trump’s threats to send forces to American cities, where more than dozens of Democratic rulers issued a statement condemning the president’s actions.
“Whether it is Illinois, Maryland, New York or another country tomorrow, the president’s threats and efforts to deploy the National Guard of the state without the request and consent of the ruler of that state are a disturbing abuse of power, ineffective, and undermine the task of our service members,” the ruler said in the statement. “This chaotic federal intervention in the National Guard of our states must end.”
Meanwhile, in Washington, Mayor Morel Boser said earlier this week that the federal increase reduced the crime, but the presence of immigration officers and the National Guard forces was not working.
“What we know does not work is the rest of trust between the police and society, especially with new federal partners in our society,” Buser told reporters last week. “We know that the presence of persuasive ice agents in society did not succeed, and national guards from other states were not effective for these resources.”
Trump has not announced plans to send federal law enforcement or National Guard forces to Chicago, but Washington Post I mentioned earlier this month The Pentagon was deeply involved in planning a military deployment in the city.
Earlier this week, NBC News reported that federal authorities are planning to increase agents to Chicago as soon as next week to increase the arrests of unauthorized migrants.
Johnson said on Saturday that the city “received reliable reports that we have days, not weeks, before our cities saw a kind of military activity by the federal government.”
Johnson added: “It is not clear at this time what it will look exactly. We may see the enforcement of military immigration. We may also see the National Guard forces. We may even see military and armed vehicles in active service in our streets,” Johnson added.
White House spokesman Abeel Jackson responded to Johnson’s announcement, accusing the mayor of “Trump’s syndrome”.
“If these Democrats focus on crime reforming in their cities instead of doing the exciting propaganda of the president’s criticism, their societies will be safer. Garbage on crime should not be a party issue, but the Democrats who suffer from TD try to make it one in crime management.
On Friday, Trump told the border Tom Human Fox News that the administration was looking at Chicago.
“Chicago is coming, along with every city,” Human said. “President Trump is committed to focusing on the cities of the haven and determining his priorities because this is where the problem is.”
Human said later when asked about a possible reaction from local officials: “Get away from the road, because we will do it,” Human said later when asked about a possible reaction from local officials.
Earlier this month, the President deployed the National Guard forces and federal law enforcement employees in Washington, DC, while he called him an effort to combat crime. The forces and federal officials of the Capital Police Administration have spread to several areas of the country’s capital.
Until now, he only deployed federal officers and the National Guard forces in Washington as part of his declared plan to combat crime, although earlier this year Trump the National Guard in California this year, despite the opposition of the governor of the state, Gavin News, the extension of California, and the sending of forces to Los Angeles to put out the protests against the procedures for enforcing migration in the administration.
Earlier this week, during an event in Los Angeles and Wisconsin, Vice President c.
“What the president said is that, simply, we want the conservatives and mayors to help,”
The vice president later referred to Chicago specifically, he told the attendees: “We are not far from Chicago. Chicago has faced many crime problems. Why do you have municipal mayors and conservatives who are angry with Donald Trump’s offer to help them more than the fact that their residents are stolen and killed in the street?