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Mayor Johnson urges Chicagoans to 'rise up' in defiance of Trump immigration raids
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | Jun 11, 2025 | Fran Spielman

Posted on 06/12/2025 5:47:37 AM PDT by Salman

Mayor Brandon Johnson urged Chicagoans to “rise up in this moment” against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, even as he acknowledged Wednesday that the deployment of the military to help carry out immigration raids in Los Angeles could happen here.

Johnson refused to say precisely what he would do if mass demonstrations in Chicago — perhaps as soon as Saturday’s “No Kings Day of Defiance” protests — provoke an L.A.-style federal response.

The mayor would only say that he is concerned enough to have spoken directly with Gov. JB Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle about the possibility that Trump might activate the Illinois National Guard to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents making arrests.

“This is a necessary fight for all of us to be able to push back. Whether we use the courts or whether we continue to protest and raise our voices, dissent matters in this moment,” the mayor said at his weekly City Hall news conference.

“It’s a war on our culture. It’s a war on our democracy. It’s a war on our humanity. I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment because, whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next. … None of us are immune from this disease.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; insurrection
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The African American mayor of Chicago encouraging open war on the citizens of Chicago.

There is a pic at the link of a crowd in front of the Federal Building in Chicago. Notably absent -- African Americans.

1 posted on 06/12/2025 5:47:37 AM PDT by Salman
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Mayor Johnson stands with criminal illegals

2 posted on 06/12/2025 5:51:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (What if stupidity isn’t about intelligence at all, but about surrendering the will to think?Bonhoeff)
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To: Salman

Sounds a lot like incitement to riot.


3 posted on 06/12/2025 5:51:35 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you disarmed because they intend on doing things you would shoot them for.)
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To: Salman

Sedition


4 posted on 06/12/2025 5:52:42 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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They would rise up against this retard of a mayor if they had any sense, but since they voted him in that is unlikely...


5 posted on 06/12/2025 5:53:17 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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Fomenting Rebellion


6 posted on 06/12/2025 5:55:08 AM PDT by oil_dude
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In fact the USA has been invaded and attacked by a foreign power, and the Biden Administration, the Democrat Party, and US leftists/"liberals"/"progressives"/Democrat supporters serve as a fifth column, aiding and supporting this invasion and attack.

This is what's going on:

The Latin American drug cartels and the Mexican Government, which they control, have declared war on the USA using

the President of Mexico, as a pawn, and the insurgents in the USA, as soldiers,

and using as weapons

Mexican nationalism,

Mexican envy of US wealth, power, and influence,

worldwide migration from third world nations to prosperous nations, as predicted by Jean Raspail (Le Camp des Saints),

Mexican resentment toward the USA for past transgressions, especially the annexation of Mexican territory by the USA in the 19th century and a desire to reclaim it,

the complicity, witting or unwitting, of the US Democrat Party and its supporters, including the so-called "journalists" of the news media and the feckless, misguided and easily brainwashed American "liberals"/"progressives",

quisling US judges intentionally obstructing President Trump in his determination to safeguard the USA and the American People, and

the Decadence of Western Civilization in America, manifest as the counter-culture movement of the 1960s and its 21st century successor, wokeism, which they perceive as a fatal weakness crippling American society, the American People, and the entire United States,

and they perceive that the time to strike is now, when the USA, at least in their opinion, is at its weakest, before President Trump and the MAGA Republicans can re-establish US strength and ascendancy.

Weak and incompetent US "leaders" such as the absurd Joe Biden, the ridiculous, weeping Gavin Newsom, and John Roberts and the other feckless and underqualified leftist Supreme Court "justices" fuel their erroneous conviction that the US is weak enough for attack and conquest and, wittingly or unwittingly serve themselves as quislings, but it is fueled even more by stupid Americans who support such weak leaders and the woke and corrupt Democrat Party.

The fifth column notwithstanding, should the enemies of the USA--WHOEVER THEY MIGHT BE!--persist in their attack on the USA they will awaken a Sleeping Tiger and will suffer the same fate as the Japanese Empire.

Be forewarned!


7 posted on 06/12/2025 5:59:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing inflames unrest in the delusional, and nothing inflames unrest in the evil, like TRUTH.)
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“The African American mayor of Chicago encouraging open war on the citizens of Chicago.”

The people of Chicago aren’t very smart. They went from Beetlejuice to this POS. Heck, they’ll probably re-elect him.


8 posted on 06/12/2025 6:00:34 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Salman

Insurrection.


9 posted on 06/12/2025 6:01:09 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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BTTT


10 posted on 06/12/2025 6:02:22 AM PDT by nopardons
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I’d like to see the mayor go to jail.

But I’d actually like to see Governor Prickster go first.


11 posted on 06/12/2025 6:03:22 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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Hmm...that sounds an awful lot like what they accused trump of doing in J6.


12 posted on 06/12/2025 6:05:11 AM PDT by suasponte137
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As if this is going to help his single-digit approval rating.


13 posted on 06/12/2025 6:07:24 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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In an earlier historical epoch, the cries of “to the barricades” did not always turn out the way that was planned. Just as history is dotted with “false messiahs” and “anti-popes,” our day is littered with utterly false demagogues and one version or another of "let's you and him fight."

When the radical Left leaders actually show up to risk their life and limb on those proverbial barricades, things might turn out other than they are. But they want comfy homes with armed guards for them, and zip and zip ties for everybody else.

14 posted on 06/12/2025 6:09:36 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Arresting dangerous felons is a “mass deportation effort”?


15 posted on 06/12/2025 6:12:13 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Salman
ICE raids on openly known cartel members, murderers, scofflaws, child sex addicts, traffickers, and criminals is what the democrats have chosen as their hill to die upon.
16 posted on 06/12/2025 6:13:38 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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How can a mayor expect to incite a riot like this and not expect consequences? Trump should deport him if he’s going to cause damage to a once great city.


17 posted on 06/12/2025 6:16:36 AM PDT by Kleon
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Let us hope that President Trump will do what needs to be done to eliminate this sedition.

I’d love to see prominent seditionists cuffed and frog-marched to Justice.


18 posted on 06/12/2025 6:18:10 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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This retard needs to be sent home to Africa where he could get a higher than 6% approval rating. I’ve known gorillas in zoos, ‘Baltimore Jack’ in Phoenix, that had higher approval ratings than this limb swinger.


19 posted on 06/12/2025 6:18:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is under attack by the Messicans and their scum buddies who are here illegally.)
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Sounds like encouraging Insurrection to me


20 posted on 06/12/2025 6:19:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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