Pritzker: Trump Using ICE to Wage ‘War’ on Chicago

The office of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker doubled down on the Democrats’ weekend assertion that President Donald Trump’s federal immigration crackdown in the crime-plagued city is about going to war and not about “fighting crime,” The Hill reported Tuesday. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday began operations in Chicago targeting the “worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.” However, a spokesperson for Pritzker reiterated what the billionaire and 2028 presidential hopeful said over the weekend — Trump is waging war on Chicago.

“As Trump has said himself, this is not about seriously fighting crime or reforming immigration — it’s about Trump’s plan to go to war with America’s third-largest city,” Matt Hill said in a statement to NewsNation.

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