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At an unrelated event in Canada, President Donald Trump was
asked about targeting certain cities for immigration
enforcement.
“The focus on the cities, because the cities are where you have
really what’s called sanctuary cities and that’s where the
people are,” Trump told reporters. “I look at Chicago.”
Trump called Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker “probably the worst”
governor in the country.
In Chicago after signing the state budget, Pritzker said he
fully expects the city to see increased immigration enforcement.
“I don’t know exactly how big the force will be but I do know
that he has used other law enforcement along with ICE to carry
out his, you know, ill-conceived mission to go after people who
frankly are paying taxes, and are law abiding, and they’ve been
here many, many years,” Pritzker said. “I think those are the
wrong people to go after.”
Pritzker said Trump should focus immigration enforcement efforts
only on illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes.
Trump said he’s focusing immigration enforcement efforts in
cities run by Democrats, including Chicago.
“Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities,” Trump
said. “All Democrat-run cities. And they think they’re going to
use them to vote. It’s not going to happen.”
Pritzker said he isn’t sure Trump would utilize the National
Guard as he did in Los Angeles earlier this month to protect
federal property from rioters.
“I think what he’s done in California has really hurt him
politically, and so I don’t think that he’ll do it in other
places, but we know that ICE is coming once again in force,”
Pritzker said.
Last week, Pritzker testified in front of a U.S. House
committee, defending Illinois’ migrant sanctuary policies that
prohibit state and local law enforcement from cooperating with
federal immigration officials.
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