Chicago braces for expanded immigration enforcement as local officials push back on Trump post

Source: ABC News

September 6, 2025, 7:03 PM


The Chicago area is bracing for additional immigration enforcement over the weekend. Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pushed back against President Donald Trump Saturday after the president increased his threats to send in federal troops to the city with a social media meme.

In a post on his social media platform, Trump reshared an image that places him in front of Chicago that insinuated he was going to take action against the city, referencing his recent rebranding of the Pentagon the "Department of War."

Pritzker slammed Trump and said that the president threatened to go to war with the city by posting the memes. "This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator," Pritzker wrote in an X post.

Johnson echoed the governor's sentiment, saying the president's "threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution.” "We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump," the mayor wrote in an X post.

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