After deploying over 2,000 National Guard members to Washington D.C., supposedly to combat crime despite official figures contradicting this theory, Donald Trump set his sights on Chicago as the next target for troop deployment.
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The decision of the President of the United States to militarize the “Windy City” also holds great political symbolism, as it is one of the major Democratic strongholds in the United States.
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Why does Trump want to send troops to Chicago?
Consulted on Friday about the military deployment in Washington DC, Trump anticipated that “afterwards” he will put “another place” on his list. “We are going to make our cities very safe,” he argued during a statement in the Oval Office in which he referred to Chicago without providing details about the intervention he is preparing.
"‘Chicago is a disaster,’ said the Republican leader, also criticizing the ‘incompetence’ of Mayor Brandon Johnson, a member of the Democratic Party. According to Trump, there are already ‘attractive African American women’ asking him to intervene as soon as possible to stop gun violence."
According to information from The Washington Post, the military intervention has been planned for weeks in parallel with expanded operations of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to search for undocumented immigrants.
Just like the deployment of troops to the US capital, the White House has also not provided information about the increase in crime.
The Democratic governor of the state of Illinois and one of the biggest critics of Trump, J.B. Pritzker, rejected the possible orchestrated plan to deploy military in the third largest city in the United States.
“The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority. There is no emergency that justifies the President of the United States deploying the National Guard from other states or sending active-duty military within our own borders,” said Pritzker.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also stated in a press release that “we reduced homicides by more than 30%, robberies by 35%, and shootings by almost 40%.”
Chicago, a democratic stronghold
The “Windy City” is a city long identified with the Democratic Party and since 1931 all mayors have been from that party, including the long administrations of two true leaders like Richard J. Daley and his son Richard M. Daley, who together led Chicago for 43 years.
Regarding Governor Pritzker, he has been a harsh critic of the President of the United States and has mocked his measures more than once. For example, in February he said he was going to rename Lake Michigan as “Lake Illinois,” in an ironic response to the change of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” and that he was going to annex Green Bay in Wisconsin, the city of the NFL’s Packers, the main rival of the Chicago Bears.
“Donald Trump is trying to create a crisis, politicize American servicemen and women, and continue to abuse his power to distract attention from the pain he is causing families,” accused Pritzker on Saturday night.
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