{"id":15656,"date":"2025-10-04T03:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15656"},"modified":"2025-10-04T03:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:26:34","slug":"chicago-mayor-issues-order-to-resist-trumps-crime-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15656","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Issues Order To Resist Trump\u2019s Crime Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at limiting the authority of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops, saying it was a response to President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to deploy them to Illinois.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe find ourselves in a position where we must take immediate, drastic action to protect our people from federal overreach,\u201d said Johnson, a Democrat, during a press conference.<\/p>\n

Johnson said the order directs the city\u2019s law department to use \u201cevery legal mechanism\u201d to block Trump\u2019s potential deployment plan.<\/p>\n

Johnson added later that he would use \u201cevery single tool that is at our disposal, and that includes the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an area in which at least there\u2019s some semblance of check and balance in this country,\u201d he said, per\u00a0NBC News.<\/p>\n

Johnson said the executive order lays out several additional directives beyond challenging Trump\u2019s potential deployment plan. Among them are rules clarifying what, if any, assistance Chicago police officers may provide to federal law enforcement, as well as prohibitions on concealing their faces or covering the Chicago Police Department\u2019s insignia while in uniform.<\/p>\n

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The mayor said these measures were designed to ensure transparency and accountability in the event of federal operations taking place in the city, NBC reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis order affirms that the Chicago Police Department will not collaborate with military personnel on police patrols or civil immigration enforcement. We will not have our police officers, who are working hard every single day to drive down crime, deputized to do traffic stops and checkpoints for the president,\u201d Johnson told the press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not want to see families ripped apart. We do not want grandmothers thrown into the back of unmarked vans,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Johnson\u2019s order comes as President Trump has already deployed troops and federal law enforcement to Washington, D.C., and threatened to do the same in other cities, including Baltimore.<\/p>\n

Democrats, meanwhile, have put themselves in the position of opposing the president\u2019s crime-fighting efforts, which isn\u2019t likely to play well at the polls during next year\u2019s midterms. While they attempt to frame Trump\u2019s efforts as federal overreach, in fact, the actions are being taken to enforce specific federal laws including those governing illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, another Democrat, somewhat praised Trump\u2019s crime-fighting effort in the nation\u2019s capital earlier this week, saying there have been serious reductions in crime.<\/p>\n

Johnson on Saturday said that the city has \u201creceived credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our cities see some type of militarized activity by the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unclear at this time what that will look like exactly. We may see militarized immigration enforcement. We may also see National Guard troops. We may even see active-duty military and armed vehicles in our streets,\u201d Johnson added.<\/p>\n

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded on Saturday to Johnson\u2019s announcement, accusing the mayor of having \u201cTrump derangement syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf these Democrats focused on fixing crime in their own cities instead of doing publicity stunts to criticize the President, their communities would be much safer. Cracking down on crime should not be a partisan issue, but Democrats suffering from TDS are trying to make it one,\u201d Jackson said, per NBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should listen to fellow Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser who recently celebrated the Trump Administration\u2019s success in driving down violent crime in Washington DC,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Trump border czar Tom Homan told Fox News the administration was looking at expanding operations to Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cChicago is coming, along with every other sanctuary city,\u201d Homan said. \u201cPresident Trump is committed that we\u2019re going to focus on and prioritize sanctuary cities because that is where the problem is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGet out of the way, because we\u2019re going to do it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n