It is said that the Pentagon is planning to use American soldiers in Chicago, as soon as September as President Donald Trump, his threats for democratic cities escalates with a declared purpose of tackling crime, homelessness and immigration of people without papers.
Ministry of Defense officials are reportedly planning for weeks in a model that can be used to occupy other American cities with thousands of national guard troops, according to reporting by The Washington Post on SaturdayWith reference to civil servants who are familiar with the plans.
“We will not speculate about further operations,” said a defense officer The independent On Saturday. “The department is a planning organization and is constantly working with other agencies partners on plans to protect federal assets and staff.”
If approved, the implementation can draw parallels with the controversial operation that Trump ordered in Los Angeles in June.
That saw 4,000 members of the California National Guard and 700 active Marines sent, despite avid opposition of national and local leaders.
There have also been discussions with regard to the possible deployment of thousands of active troops in Chicago, although this is currently less likely, according to two officials who spoke due to anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject.
Trump spoke on Friday in the Oval Office and threatened to send active military staff to the third largest city in America to tackle what he described as a crime outside of the control of democratic leadership.
“We are going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, coarse incompetent, and we will put that straight, probably after that our next, and it won’t even be difficult,” Trump said.
The president then claimed that the black population of the Windy City – including “Afro -American ladies, beautiful ladies” – shouted for him to “please” come to Chicago.
“So I think Chicago will be our next, and then we will help with New York,” he said.
In addition to Los Angeles, the president has also taken similar action in Washington, DC, with soldiers from the National Guard who patrols through the streets.
At the request of Trump last weekend, the Republican governors of three states said they sent hundreds of National Guard troops to the capital of the nation.
This month, the president stated what he called an “crime of emergency” to justify his administration that took control of the metropolitan police division of the city while committed the troops of the National Guard and Federal Legal Enforcement agents in the streets of the city and claims that the White House must “save” and Ereger “of” “Crime” and Ereger “of” “” Erger “of” “Ear of” “” Erger “of” “” Erger “of” “” Erger “of” “” Erger “of” “
Crime data collected by the FBI show that violent crime last year reached a low of 30 years in Washington, a self -controlling federal district under the jurisdiction of the congress. The Ministry of Justice is reportedly investigating whether city officials have manipulated crime data after the President accused the capital of creating “fake criminalities” to undermine his federal acquisition.
FOX News reported on Friday that the Trump administration is said to be planning to mobilize a maximum of 1,700 National Guard troops in 19 states in the coming weeks.
“The state of Illinois has not received any requests or outreach from the federal government with the question whether we need help, and we have not made any requests for federal intervention,” said the Democratic Governor JB Pritzker of the State.
“The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority,” he said on Saturday in a statement in response to The Washington Postreporting.
“There is no emergency that the President of the United States secures the federalization of the National Guard of Illinois, sends the National Guard from other states or actively militarily within our own borders,” he added.
“Donald Trump tries to produce a crisis, politizes Americans who serve in uniform and continue to abuse his power to distract from the pain he causes working families,” he said.
Mayor Brandon Johnson said Chicago The city has “great worries about the impact of every illegal deployment of National Guard troops”, and calls the president’s approach “uncoordinated, not planned for and inadequate”.
Johnson warned that such a bet “could cause tensions between residents and law enforcement”, and would undermine the progress that the city has made in reducing crimes, and noticed that murders have fallen by 30 percent, surprised by 35 percent and shoots by almost 40 percent.
“There are many things that the federal government could do to help us reduce crime and violence in Chicago, but inserting the army is not one of them,” said the mayor.
The National Guard feels the costs of the President’s insight to use its troops to implement his federal law enforcement agenda, whereby leadership is delivered that long -term implementations in financing the financing for training and operations will participate.
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