The President of the United States, Donald Trump, called on Wednesday, October 8, to imprison the mayor of Chicago, in the United States, Brandon Johnson, as well as the state governor, JB Pritzker, accusing the two elected Democrats of the Immigration Police (ICE) this Wednesday.
“The mayor of Chicago should be in prison for not having protected the ice agents! So should the governor Pritzker!” he wrote on his truth-telling social network.
Two hundred National Guardsmen arrived near Chicago, a US defense official said on Tuesday, after the president described this large city in the north of the country as a “war zone.”
Donald Trump authorized the deployment of 700 national guards this weekend, but the democratic opposition challenged the legality of the decree in court, accusing the billionaire of “punishing his political enemies.” She claims that the Trump administration is using “pretext” from demonstrations outside an Immigration Enforcement Center (ICE) in the Chicago suburbs to justify sending troops. The federal judge in charge of the file set a hearing for this Thursday.
There is no “national security threat”
This weekend, a judge temporarily blocked a similar deployment to Portland (in the northwest of the United States), another democratic city. She argued that there was “no insurrection in Portland, nor a threat to national security,” contrary to what the Trump administration maintains.
Donald Trump has been targeting Chicago for weeks and floating the possibility of invoking the insurrection act, the compilation of laws from the 18th and 19th centuries. This makes it possible to proclaim a state of emergency that authorizes the use of armed forces against American citizens, prohibited in principle.
The president has already deployed National Guard soldiers in the democratic cities of Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis (South), each time against the advice of local authorities.
Source: BFM TV
