Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker calls armed immigration officers in Chicago an ‘attack on Americans’

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker denounced the Trump administration deployment of patrol and immigration agents of armed borders, some of masks, in Chicago and other parts of the State at a press conference on Monday. He described the movements of “authoritarianism” and an attack on the Americans.

Headlighting from weeks of what he described as “chaos” – including a weekend of clashes between agents and demonstrators – Pritzker condemned armed officers patrolling the streets of the city and the Chicago river arresting and arresting people. His message to them: “Get out of Chicago. You don’t help us. “

Pritzker warned that the administration could degenerate its operation with the addition of troops and military equipment. A few moments before the press conference, the Illinois National Guard learned that the Ministry of Internal Security had sent a note to the Ministry of Defense in search of the deployment of 100 military troops in Illinois, Pritzker said.

The Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for comments. The presence of federal officers in the Chicago region is part of the repression of the Trump administration against immigrants and cities which, according to President Donald Trump, are prey to crime. He said Chicago is a “hellhole”.

Trump has deployed national guard troops in Washington, DC, Los Angeles and New York and could send about 200 to Portland, Oregon.

The application in and around Chicago has become fatal this month when an agent of the application of the forces of immigration and customs fell an immigrant who tried to flee in his car when an officer arrested him.

The Ministry of Internal Security said that the agent, who was standing next to the vehicle’s passenger side, had been dragged while the car was moving and injured. Pritzker and other state representatives have requested more information and transparency on the survey.

Immigration officers and agents “waged war in our people” to try to provoke “chaos and chaos in the hope of deploying military troops against Chicago and BroadView and other suburbs,” said Pritzker.

“In another country, if federal agents dismissed journalists and demonstrators when they were not provoked, how do we call it? If federal agents walked in the animated streets to harass civilians and demand their papers … I don’t think we would have trouble calling it: authoritarianism,” said pritzker, Chicago and a recent protest where the ice officers were launched by the Pevev Troap and a tear from Chicago and a recent protetter where the ice police officers media trucks.

Pritzker was flanked by the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, other elected officials and representatives of religious communities, affairs and other parties of national and local society.

Pritzker said Trump and members of his administration were lying when they claim that military deployments and the law enforcement improve public security by resulting in arrests of violent criminals and gang members.

Instead, said Pritzker, the agents “act like jackboot thugs”, targeting tamal sellers, deliverers and families.

“We have received many reports on American citizens detained for simply walking on a public street,” he said.

Trump on Sunday said on Truth Social that “the border patrol will not take any absurdity” in an article which included a video of immigration agents confronted with a crowd of demonstrators.

Last week, a shooter fired a roof on an ice installation in Dallas, killing an immigrant detainee and injuring two others. The authorities said that the shooter was targeting the ice agents and that one of the bullets had a marking that said “anti -Ice”.

Trump said that after the Dallas shooting that ice agents “faced an unprecedented increase in threats [and] Violence “and called on the Democrats to stop rhetoric against ice and the police.

Shortly after the Pritzker press conference, Prosecutor General Pam Bondi said on X that she had directed agents from the alcohol, tobacco and firearm office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and the Service of American Marshals to deploy officers and agents in ice facilities “each time they are attacked”.

Federal agents and demonstrators clashed from Friday to Sunday outside the Ice installation on BroadView.

On September 19, the agents deployed tear gas and pepper gases against demonstrators trying to prevent ice vehicles from driving and leaving the BroadView installation. Physical confrontations broke out while the officers sought to arrest certain demonstrators.

An NBC Chicago journalist during this demonstration said that a lacrymogenic gas cartridge had been placed near his media trucks.

In addition, the BroadView police service investigates the complaint of a CBS Chicago journalist that on Sunday a masked federal agent pulled him with pepper balls at around 50 feet inside the fence of the BroadView ice installation, hitting his vehicle, reported NBC Chicago.

A representative of the DHS told Chicago Sun-Totes on Monday in a statement that “no member of the CBS media or any other point of sale was” attacked “.” The declaration also added, in part, “secretary Noem was clear: the rioters will not stop us or will not slow down to delete the worst of the worst.”

BroadView mayor Katrina Thompson told DHS in a letter obtained by NBC News that the administration’s immigration measures disturb residents and first stakeholders.

The “relentless” deployment of tear gas, pepper gas and rubber bullets “endanger” residents nearby and naked to police and firefighters and people who exercise their constitutional rights, wrote Thompson.

She also said that the DHS had ignored the village’s request to remove a door which he “illegally” erected in a street in front of his ice installation, which she called an obstruction for firefighters who may need to respond to emergencies.

“You must dismantle the fence. You must stop putting our residents, our police, our firefighters and our citizens in danger,” she wrote.

Police per border patrol takes place while agents meet much fewer immigrants on the southwest border.

In his remarks on Monday, Pritzker sent a plea to residents of his condition: “Take out your mobile phones, record and tell what you see, put it on social networks.”

He encouraged residents to “peacefully” ask for badge numbers and an identity card and talk about neighbors. “”

“We have to let the world happen that it happens, and we will not bear it,” he said.