Posted on 10/08/2025 9:58:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he’s got one.
The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple months ago.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hate the notion of the National Guard in the streets of the city, but have failed to rally Chicago residents to do the one thing necessary to avoid the deployment — let federal officers do their job.
The word should have gone out long ago: Don’t riot outside ICE facilities.
Don’t ram cars into ICE vehicles.
Don’t keep ICE officers from making arrests.
Don’t follow ICE vehicles in an attempt to disrupt operations.
Don’t act as though the Gestapo has descended on your city and civil disobedience, or violence, is the only answer.
None of this should be a big ask.
Instead, Pritzker and Johnson consider ICE operations inherently out of bounds and have played into the belief that something terrible is being done to Chicago.
According to Johnson, “The president of the United States has declared war on the people of Chicago” — as if detaining people who have no right to live or work here is a hostile act against US citizens.
Pritzker says ICE needs “to get out of Chicago.”
The resistance to ICE shows that we have created enclaves that, as far as their political leaders and a significant element of the population are concerned, are supposed to be no-go zones for federal immigration enforcement.
What should have been the exception — the defiance of federal immigration law — is now considered the norm, such that any disturbance of it is intolerable.
It’s bad enough that Chicago is a...
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Tillis, Thuthan Collinth, and MurkCOWski throwing shade on it now
There. Fixed it.
The only way this goes further south is when Pritzner uses Illinois guards against the Texas NG members.
Democratic state Rep. Justin Pearson went to a Memphis park near the neighborhood where he grew up to announce that he will challenge longtime Democratic congressman Steve Cohen to represent the majority-Black city in 2026. The winner likely would have a clear path to represent the state’s 9th Congressional District, the state’s only jurisdiction that leans Democratic under congressional lines drawn by Republicans.
“President Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago”
Based on what may I ask? The little Trump haters at NYP think they know what Trump is thinking now I suppose.
Headline= duh
I don’t care about the others but did Thune throw shade? He does matter unlike the other 3.
If they’d enforced the laws, there wouldn’t be any need for Trump to take action to protect federal agents and property.
How different is iy from Eisenhower sending federal troops to Little Rock to enforce federal law?
“Trump haters at NYP think they know what Trump is thinking now I suppose.”
Of course they do. Trump lives rent free in their heads.
Thune isn’t going to waffle
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