"The deployment of armed forces to American cities serving at his pleasure even when they are not officially under his direct command has nothing to do with crime, except insofar as the administration has sought to redefine the term to mean Democratic governance, racial pluralism or the presence of immigrants. There is no violent crime in Chicago, or in any of these cities, that federal troops can be usefully deployed to quell."
"Instead, the federal agents who will probably invade Chicago in the coming days are there to serve a very different purpose. They are there to assert Trump's personal authority over government actions, to intimidate populations that did not vote for him, to terrorize and kidnap immigrants and destroy their families, and to make sure that every American knows that even if they succeed in electing Democrats to run their cities and states, the Trump regime can send armed men to their neighborhoods who answer to Republicans."
Donald Trump said "We're going in" about potentially deploying national guard troops to Chicago as Texas troops prepared to deploy without being federalized. Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois governor JB Pritzker opposed the move. The White House and allies claimed the deployment responded to violent crime despite long-term crime declines across major U.S. cities. Deployments in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. are cited as similar actions. The federal forces are described as instruments to assert presidential authority over local governments, intimidate opposition populations, target immigrants, and signal that Republican-controlled forces can override Democratic local leadership, increasing risks of confrontation.
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