Mayor of the American Chicago Brandon Johnson He refused the possible deployment of the National Guard in the city of the federal government. On Saturday, he signed a regulation against its imminent intervention against immigration, DPA reported to which TASR refer to.
“We don’t want to see tanks in our streets,” Johnson declared President Donald Trump in connection with the National Guard August to Washington.
The mayor warned that there would be increased stay checks on Trump. “We have received credible news that we have days, not weeks until Our city will experience some kind of militarized activity by the federal government. It is not yet clear what it will look like, ”Johnson said.
“We can witness militarized enforcement of immigration laws. We can also see the units of the National Guard. We can even see soldiers in active service and armed vehicles in our streets. We didn’t ask for it. Our people did not ask for this, but we still found ourselves in a situation where we have to respond to it, ”added the mayor.
Johnson said that, given this possibility, he signed the regulation to give all municipal authorities Instruction to protect the inhabitants of Chicago from the measures of the federal government. For example, local police should not cooperate with soldiers in patrols or anti -immigration interventions.
The mayor from the Democratic Party added that it is difficult to predict whether the “incalculable and impulsive” nature of Trump’s administration is to predict whether the national guard will be deployed. He called on the Republican President to change his opinion.
This month, Trump has activated the National Guard with the alleged aim of suppressing crime in Washington, which he thinks is out of control, which is not documented by police statistics. The capital of the US also has a democratic mayor.
White House chief previously deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles and recently declared that another city where it is necessary to establish order could be Chicago. Johnson said that The murder rate, robberies and shooting in the city has fallen significantly in the past year.
