Public sentiment is largely critical of Mayor Johnson's resistance to federal immigration policies, with many expressing concerns over public safety and crime rates in Chicago. While a small number of commenters support his actions as a defense of civil rights, the predominant view highlights dissatisfaction with the mayor's perceived ineffectiveness and prioritization of political agendas over community safety.

Mayor Brandon Johnson

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Chicago Residents

“Massive?” The numbers I’ve seen are a couple of hundred people and they are going to be stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Base. Currently the commute is 1 and a half hours to the Loop and it’s not even rush hour. 

My angry heart is cackling at the time they will waste in traffic.

peglar

Would be nice if this pedo terrorist pos wasn't around next week.

Roriborialus

MAGA Nazis will eat this up unfortunately

IrishPorpoise

It’s not like they are going to be patrolling the neighborhoods like Garfield Park or Englewood. They will be on Lake shore and Michigan avenue

Missinglinks7

Keyrov

Guess we're all going to work with protest signs. 

Release the Epstein files.

ChildOf7Sins

He sends 20 armed agents to arrest the guy that threw a sandwich at ICE, and he can’t even get a felony change out of it. 

He only wants to show off like his idols Xi and Putin.

machinezed

It would be so sad if thousands and thousands of cars were to suddenly stall,  blocking traffic for hours at a time every day.

Ok_Possession4936

Cool story. Where’s the Epstein files Crusty McAnkle Titty Baby?!?

th3_st0rm

We're going to press charges against your ICE agents motherfucker, they are not welcome here. Do not come.

UnauthorizedGoose

[deleted]

Time to get a Mexican flag sticker for your car to throw them off if you’re white.

If ice pulls you over, then waste their time by refusing to speak English and just keep saying Abogado

LeadPaintChipsnDip

He's going to do it when we're all on Labor Day vacations or taking the kids back to school. Then when I get back to the office next Wednesday I'm going to be pushing through turds in desert fatigues because they're too cheap to put them in the right uniforms. Fucking joke.

cats_catz_kats_katz

Powerful_Path_6386

Man, if only we could pay the windshield washing folks to carry something that purposely makes the windshields unable to see through if your ice

chincinatti

How about a pedophile crackdown to save the children?

Philintheblank90

I am a self made immigrant. Millionaire huge legacy. I did it from scratch. This guy inherited $400m  40 years ago - multiple to 2024 - x5. S and P multiple x 90. Average family multiple 35x. He’s a business failure

larkfield2655

Arrest all of the ones that are not wearing an ID and can't or won't have Warrents




They are until proven otherwise kidnapers and domestic terrorists.

Festering-Fecal

This is where it gets more real because unlike DC, states have the right to protect themselves. Hopefully Illinois does here. Trump’s a traitor to office and country. On top of that, his occupations don’t solve any of these problems.

OGdunphy

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES IF YOUR “not in the files”

frankakee

Push the protest organization into overdrive!!

Let's get large crowds peacefully in their face. Put our bodies between them and their objects of attention.

RESIST.

DiscretelyDeviant

notaged

Bibble_Squat

Well, I guess 40 years was long enough to live without getting arrested by the gestapo

seatsfive

Effective_Big_9037

Lucky-Ad-7830

Trump is not and never will be welcomed in Chicago, never he wants the military around because it’s scary even for him when over a million people form a protest march from various groups whom see through all the lies, hate, racism, greed, warmongering, land grabbing and his crimes including deviant sexual predator behavior against women and worst kids, little girls!

Brilliant-Head-7196

Congress is reviewing the Epstein files. He knows that there will be protests and wants to send in troops to "persuade" the masses.

NarrowFlows

Maybe they should plan a "massive immigration crackdown" in Miami. Or is Florida too red??

trucker96961

Let them come. All immigrants are welcome here and entitled to due process. Let the courts be jammed up with these bullshit games that Trump is playing. 

He won’t ever even reach the deportation numbers that Obama and Biden had and so he’s trying to find a new way to game the system and look good to his supporters. A bunch of deplorables was too kind

ThatOneDumbCunt

It their first shot to agitating any resistance  here ...A excuse to federalize Illinois National guard.  The entry point to Occupation

Darkford2022

People need to get out of their slumber!  Democracy and freedoms will be a thing of the past unless people protest, resist, and speak up!!!

nehlstm30

Mean_Web_1744

They are going to use the excuse of increased crime over the Labor Day weekend to invade.

CheekyLass99

Why doesn't he just admit that he doesn't feel safe unless everyone is cowering in their homes, afraid to come out because his gestapo will Trump up some ridiculous non charges against them?

Adventurous-Host8062

Seems like they're just gonna be contributing to the already god awful congestion there and upset a buncha Chicagoans... it's a FAFO situation.

ChubChubPickles

This is practice for the 2026 elections. Trump plans to militarize Democratic strongholds then to deter voters and steal the election. He knows his awful poll numbers portend a massive loss in the House and likely loss of the Senate and that would gut him. We need to stay strong.

good-luck-23

rump needs to be buried in a garbage dump!!!

Guys, I was downtown yesterday and let me tell you how crime ridden it was as I was walking downtown. Thugs and gangs everywhere. /s for sarcasm.

DelayedMailForceOne

Garmon_Bozia-573

indictmentofhumanity

Blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah……

ConstantStrange9974

Southside will give them a proper welcome in a fashion they won't like.

Popular-Ad7735

He never goes into the Bad Neighborhoods …. Just parks next to the Mall

RunBarefoot60

Can’t wait for them to screw with the wrong Chicagoan, that should be entertaining. Most people are passively irritated on a good day.

Softlystated

AhBee1

76Kingwiz

Get signs ready saying "searching for the Trumpstein Files".  Take selfies in front of the feds at any opportunity and plaster the hell out of the internet.  Be creative, be peaceful and be courageous. They may control the news, but we have way more personal connections then they realize.  Millions x 20-300 connections per person.  Get the real news out with trusted sources.

Lazy-Intern-5371

almccoy85

Shame on those soldiers. Let them feel the shame.

Devils_Advocate-69

Hopefully they don’t make traffic worse

Impossible_Share_759

"Two months ago, Trump ordered the deployment of roughly 4,000 [California](https://www.the-express.com/latest/california) National Guard troops to LA, along with 700 marines, in response to demonstrations against immigration raids.

Trump's decision marked the first time in 60 years that a president had activated the National Guard to a state without a request from its governor. The incident sparked a bitter row between Trump and Democratic [California](https://www.the-express.com/latest/california) Governor Gavin Newsom."

garbage news source stops short of mentioning the very liberal ninth circuit upheld trump's ability to do this

33ITM420


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States rights.

10th amendment.

The Republicans must be thrilled.

Perhaps extensive road repairs are needed near the military base in North Chicago, complete with concrete barriers, detours and lane closures.  Traffic could be a real mess.  Shame if that had to happen.

I405CA

Redtex

Good. Hopefully this will spread to other cities so we can get rid of the gestapo

EmberLoveLace564

I have this feeling like we're soon going to be reading the headline: "DOJ threatens arrest for Chicago mayor on obstruction and terrorism charges"... If not outright reading that he's been arrested already.

**That's** the era we're in and **that's** how far we've fallen down the rabbit hole of fascism when half of you read what I just wrote and agree that you wouldn't be surprised if I'm right... and the other half that read this hope that I am.

Grey_0ne

All gas stations, restaurants, supermarkets, bars, movie theaters, delis, pizzerias, gyms, hotels, etc., in the area should refuse to serve members of ICE and any other agencies that trump sends. Make it a desert for them. Close your business when you see them in your neighborhood. Make them have to go all the way back to the naval base for food, accommodations, gas, etc.

Trump's schutzstaffel are going to take some days off, take their masks off, and try to enjoy the best that Chicago has to offer. Ask them for their ID then refuse them service. They should be easy to spot, even without the masks. Undercover law enforcement agents tend to dress the same.

charcoalist

Wish I lived in Chicago instead of a Republican shithole known as Florida.

Adventurous-Arm5801

"it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish" a government that becomes destructive of their rights.

BlueyedIrush

chockedup

Good, I'm tired of our leaders being asleep at the wheel. Everyone should be hitting the big red button, breaking the glass, etc.

MessyConfessor

As a Washingtonian, I'm not used to seeing a mayor stand up against a military occupation.

Keep it up Chicago

VanguardAvenger

Keep in mind when they say "military base on the outskirts of Chicago" they mean Naval Station Great Lakes - which is closer to Wisconsin than Chicago. It's a pretty shitty drive to the actual urban centers of the area. 

So unless they want to round up people in like, Waukegan or at Six Flags, it's going to be really inconvenient to stage there. And lake county might be rich as hell, but it's not the Republican stronghold it used to be.

VirginiaMcCaskey

whoibehmmm

u700MHz

I'm Canadian and supposed to go to Chicago for work next month.  I'm not going if there is military presence.

reward72

Disc-Golf-Kid

Sounds like it'll be directing the city police to not collaborate or work with federal law enforcement regarding any immigration created work.

SwimmingThroughHoney

aafreis

It has to start somewhere. It has to start some time.

NEOK53

Initial-Dick83

Meanwhile in LA, Karen Bass makes milquetoast statements while allowing LAPD to continue working alongside ICE. An embarrassment.

Mechalamb

This is the ENERGY WE NEED!! Bc we all tired as hell

inthenight098

All state governors should put out executive orders that say their EOs are above presidential EOs no foolin' fr fr no takes backsies infinity.

Lucky_Chaarmss

fowlraul

BotherResponsible378

That's a good start and far better than just denouncing it, but the Democrats need to take other, more creative measures in addition to this. Resistance is a defensive measure, there needs to be some offense too. 

Tokyo-MontanaExpress

I feel like I made the right choice for my move, such an amazing city

BoogerSlime666

Hate to bring down the vibes in here, but I'm skeptical about actual enforcement. The president of CPD's union is a literal J6 sympathizer and even got reelected after his public support of the insurrectionists (that got a cop killed and put many in the hospital).

PM-YOUR-ICED-UP-NIPS

Wasn't Chicago also the city that resisted the theocratic right wing in Handmaid's Tale?

AGrandNewAdventure

NYC would for sure help, Adams would bow down...

nasorrty346tfrgser

happyherbbby

Very stupid. As a progressive he’s predictably taking the bait. If he wants to resist something it should be the illegal things Trump is doing, not something that’s within his jurisdiction and a huge campaign issue for republicans to. This plays right into trumps hands

airbear13

Chicago's actually starting to look pretty appealing, huh?

fruniga

Everyone is missing the fact that this doesn’t matter at all when the feds don’t care about rules 

Decent_Video_1465

Cool... so BJ is the guy most emotionally and constitutionally similar to Trump I've seen so far on the left... the two of them in a pissing match is going to be so incredibly whiny and annoying.

Busy-Dig8619

What they are calling "resistance" is just non-cooperation, which is a nothing burger given that most Democratic states and cities haven't been cooperating with ICE for decades.  Non-cooperation is definitely legal, but actual resistance in the sense of interfering with Federal law enforcement would likely end up with people in jail.

ortcutt

OkIron6206

The mayor of Chicago is a puppet and a stooge. Anyone that lives here already knows that.

BufordTannen85

Violence is rampant. No one disagrees, I hope. This mayor is a clown. I’m ashamed to be a democratic in Chicago lately. I wouldn’t trust him to run our local Dairy Queen.

Tough_Relief3755

I enjoy the sentiment, but this will almost certainly run up against Supreme Court precedent. Immigration may be considered an plenary federal matter, and the state would be interfering with the federal governments execution of its powers. 

It’s important for those in the opposition to understand the structure of government in order to mount a legitimate resistance. Putting weight behind a position without understanding the constituional structure of our government is untenable. 

That being said, the Republican administration and its supporters are certainly taking advantage of federal power that they once resisted fundamentally in order to gain advantage for themselves. It’s abhorrent and must be legitimately opposed. 

What does a state do in the face of plenary power? I guess we will find out.

N64_3_Year_Old

Oh Bo. He’s going to jail for sure.   This will be fun to watch

Thick-Weight3903

Reasonable-Nose7813

This is giving Trump exactly what he wants.

ThisGuy6266

That means absolutely nothing. A city isn’t a real authority

AdaLikelace

how could we not be adversarial? We’re getting occupied against our will

rockandrollzomby

&gt;*“If they’re here, communication between the CPD and the National Guard would be most helpful, because I think that’s where we can find some type of balance,” Snelling said. “There’s no need at this point to create an adversarial environment which could lead to violence.”*
&gt;
&gt;*A Chicago police spokesperson clarified later that Snelling was talking about protesters and protecting First Amendment rights when speaking against fomenting “an adversarial environment.”*
&gt;
&gt;*The mayor, asked multiple times Thursday morning to detail the directive for Chicago police if uninvited troops arrive, repeatedly said “their role doesn’t change.” Johnson then hewed to talking points about crime rates in Chicago going down.*
&gt;
&gt;*The mayor then deferred to Snelling, who maintained Police Department protocol would be hard to anticipate without communication from the National Guard and that the situation can “change on a dime.” But, the superintendent maintained, “the Chicago Police Department does not, cannot and will not interfere with the work that federal agents are doing.”*

&gt;*Snelling urged protesters to remain peaceful and “try not to obstruct or become physical with federal agents or members of the National Guard.”*

Mike_I

We don't need or want trump and his goons in Chicago.

Background-Fly-8374

Do we know what parts of town they are going to be in? I was guessing The Loop, West Loop, Lincoln Park, and maybe Wrigleyville. That's based on an assumption of them wanting to make waves in whiter parts of the city with lower crime rates, but that is a guess within itself.

PedroTheNoun

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