Trump’s govt launches immigration raids in Chicago

The Trump administration on Monday launched a caller migration enforcement cognition successful Chicago, saying the latest national crackdown successful a US metropolis would people the “worst of the worst criminals.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement of “Operation Midway Blitz” comes aft President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to nonstop National Guard troops into Illinois, sparring with the state’s politician JB Pritzker successful societal media posts successful caller days.

“For years, Governor Pritzker and his chap sanctuary politicians released Tren de Aragua pack members, rapists, kidnappers, and cause traffickers connected Chicago’s streets — putting American lives astatine hazard and making Chicago a magnet for criminals,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful a statement.

Pritzker, a Democrat, slapped backmost astatine the accusations, posting connected X that the cognition “isn’t astir warring crime” due to the fact that Washington had done nary coordination with Chicago authorities and “the Trump Administration’s focused connected scaring Illinoisians.”

The DHS connection included a database of names, images and rap sheets for 11 “criminal amerciable aliens” it said had been released backmost onto Illinois streets and are present sought for arrest.

Having declared triumph with his unpopular unit deployments and deportation raids successful Washington and Los Angeles, Republican Trump has turned to Democratic-run Chicago arsenic a caller talking constituent successful his militarized rollout of anti-immigrant policy.

He calls the metropolis a “hell-hole” ravaged by weapon crime.

US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois criticized the determination arsenic actions that “don’t marque america safer. They are a discarded of money, stoke fear, and correspond different failed effort astatine a distraction.”

“As President Trump continues to wrongly hyper-fixate connected deploying the subject to Chicago, his medication is present ramping up its run to apprehension hardworking immigrants with nary transgression convictions,” Durbin said.

Trump posted caller anti-immigrant messaging to societal media Monday, sharing sketchy memes and cablegram quality clips, decrying play unit and saying “I privation to assistance the radical of Chicago, not wounded them. Only the Criminals volition beryllium hurt!”

The president’s determination to dial backmost his provocative code against The Windy City came aft brazen threats to unleash the military, and nationalist protests that drew thousands of defiant demonstrators to Chicago’s streets.

Over the weekend, Trump posted an seemingly AI-generated representation of himself costumed arsenic blood-thirsty Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore of “Apocalypse Now,” tweaking the celebrated enactment to accidental “I emotion the odor of deportations successful the morning” and depicting the Chicago skyline inundated by smoke, flames and helicopters.

In the archetypal enactment successful Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film, Kilgore says helium loves the odor of napalm, the highly flammable deadly limb dropped connected Vietnam.

“Chicago astir to find retired wherefore it’s called the Department of WAR,” the president wrote Saturday connected Truth Social.

Pritzker rebuffed the president’s threats saying: “This is not a joke. This is not normal… Illinois won’t beryllium intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”

Pritzker posted proposal for however to header with raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), telling his followers to beryllium large successful their absorption and advising them of their close to contradict introduction to immoderate cause who lacks a valid warrant.

AFP

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