“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. […]
“None of this is lawful,” said Washington, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb Washington, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration aiming to end what he described as the “illegal deployment” of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital. In a complaint filed with the United States District Court for the […]
“This militarized spending comes at the expense of federal programs—like public housing—that actually do prevent crime and improve health and education outcomes,” said researcher Hanna Homestead Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC’s police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to “end vagrancy” by destroying homeless […]
An alliance of Latin American and Caribbean nations said Trump’s military deployment poses “a threat to the stability and self-determination of all the peoples” of the region China and members of an alliance of Latin American and Caribbean nations in recent days joined countries including Brazil and Colombia and anti-war voices around the world in […]