President Donald Trump has issued another dire warning about the extent of street crime in Chicago, urging Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to call him and formally request federal military support. This weekend 41 people were shot, 3 DEAD.
These numbers are becoming normalized. It is out of control!” “The city will die if the Federal Government, a fine tuned crime fighting machine, is not invited in, by the Mayor or Governor, to HELP. Nobody should be forced to live under these conditions.
Like D.C. and others, they will have almost no crime, FAST! The State and City can’t do what I do. Governor Pritzker, CALL!!!” The president issued a similar appeal to Pritzker in June in response to another wave of violent crime incidents hitting the city over the Juneteenth weekend.
He told the Democrat: “Governor Pritzker, I, as President, can fix this, FAST and Permanently. D.C., Memphis, New Orleans, all down to record lows, and quickly! CALL ME!” Pritzker has yet to respond to Trump’s latest appeal but knocked him back on that occasion, mocking the president over the botched cleaning of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and over his failure to foresee Iran’s blockading of the Strait of Hormuz.
Federal immigration forces did descend on Chicago last fall in what the administration called Operation Midway Blitz, bringing bad-tempered clashes between agents and demonstrators as they attempted to round-up undocumented migrants. Their arrival was opposed by Pritzker beforehand, who clearly did not see anything to change his mind. He later likened Trump’s operations to “the early days of Nazi Germany,” accusing ICE and other agencies of targeting ethnic minorities and arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.
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