The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnsonsigned on Saturday an executive order that instructs all the departments of the city to Do not collaborate with the Federal Governmentanticipating a possible militarization of the citywith which he has threatened the Donald Trump administrationto combat crime.
“Today I sign an executive order that will launch the Initiative ‘Protecting Chicago‘”, said the Democratic Mayor in a press conference, in which he explained that the measure orders that” the department of Chicago police will not collaborate with military personnel in police patrols or in the application of the Civil Immigration Law“.
Johnson responded to the Threats on a possible military deployment in Chicago With which the US President Donald Trump recently threatened, in the image of what he recently did in Washington DC, also under a Democratic mayor. This strategy, however, could be accompanied by a Increased raids against undocumented migrants.
Migratory raids
“We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see shattered families. We do not want the grandmothers to be thrown to the rear of unidentified vans. We do not want to see the inhabitants of Chicago homeless harassed or disappeared by federal agents, “Johnson said.
And he added that the order instructs the law department “to follow each and every one of the legal mechanisms to hold this administration responsible for violating the rights of Chicago“.
The mayor indicated that this measure is aligned with the interests of the governor of Illinois, also the Democrat J.B. Pritzkerand said that he has been in contact with Los Angeles Democrats to find out what can expect Chicago.
In addition to the capital, the United States government already deployed thousands of national guard members in Los Angeles during the outbreak of protests against migratory raids last June. Trump is “the greatest threat to our democracy that he has never experienced the history of our country, “Johnson said in his speech.
