“We’re under siege,” said one witness. “We’re being invaded by our own military.” Just hours after President Donald Trump said US soldiers should use Americans cities as “training grounds,” federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday night descended upon an apartment complex in Chicago where witnesses say they broke down residents’ doors, smashed furniture and belongings, and dragged dozens […]
Many thousands marched in solidarity through downtown Chicago over the weekend to denounce the growing threat of President Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, with the Midwest’s largest city his latest target. Organized by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, city residents demonstrated in droves on Saturday afternoon, walking […]
“If the federal government wants to help they should invest, not invade,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. With some federal agents already at a nearby naval station and fencing erected around the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse overnight, Chicagoans and Illinois’ elected officials on Friday continued to prepare for US President Donald Trump’s militarized “invasion” of the country’s third-largest city. […]
“If Trump wants to take his ego trip on tour, he picked the wrong city,” said one senior Illinois official. “Chicago doesn’t bow down to kings or roll out the red carpet for dictators.” US President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago is the next city in his crosshairs for the kind of federal invasion and occupation […]