Public sentiment is sharply polarized regarding Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago. Supporters see it as a necessary response to crime, advocating for law enforcement and security, while critics deem it a political distraction that negatively impacts immigrant communities and erodes civil rights. The discourse is marked by urgency, fear, and significant frustration, reflecting deep divisions in public opinion.

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“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

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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

How about a pedophile crackdown to save the children?

Philintheblank90

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

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

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

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

seatsfive

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

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

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

Effective_Big_9037

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

Lucky-Ad-7830

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

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

RunBarefoot60

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

thecodingart

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

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

Usual-Scene-7460

Tolls and Tows.  Set up new toll booths at every entrance of GLNS. $50000.00 to enter and exit. Pictures and Hi res Video cameras of the vehicles and occupants.  Have O'hare tow trucks follow them, tow the vehicles and impound them as soon as they park and exit.  Traffic enforcement for all speeding, etc.

Giant_Acroyear

TravelinglightOWTF

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

almccoy85

Make sure that you and your family have read up on your rights. This information is readily available on the ACLU website. Print them out and have them on hand. Also record any and all ICE activity that you may see. Send these videos to anti-ICE groups rather than rush to post on social media.

And remember, there's strength in numbers. Don't hesitate to call them out on what they're doing. Shout 'shame' and 'quit your job'. Get their license plates of nothing else.

PumpkinAspie

Puerto Rico is a United States territory now that doesn’t mean that ice won’t try to profile them they absolutely do and I’m not trying to scare you here that’s part of their tactics. That’s why they end up kidnapping a lot of citizens they are messy and they are disorganized. I know this doesn’t sound optimistic and to be honest I don’t know if I have optimism to give about this ice is nasty and they’re racist all of their field agents are the dregs of society. There is strength in numbers though.

WWI_Buff1418

It’s like I a said before, with who? The ICE is not only low on moral, but also low on staff and are constantly chased off by normal people.

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They spelled “invoke martial law so they can suspend elections and declare Trump the dictator of America” wrong

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Mcfreely2

So Greg Abbott busses 50 thousand+ migrants to Chicago, an now Trump is going to send ICE to collect them, and yet the GOP is somehow the 'fiscally responsible' and 'small government' party.  OK.

StayinHasty

I know pritzker wants to run for president, let's hope he takes this as an opportunity to really fuck with Trump

adderalpowered

National guard members, remember your oath.

thezoomies

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As someone from Chicago, I wish them all the best...

lynners3

"First Chicago! Next, THE WORLD!" 

-Trump, probably

Sufficient_Two_5753

I have a feeling this won't end well in Chicago

Ok_Fox4488

BlerdAngel

Barricade your houses and boobytrap your yards

Current-Routine2497

tonypearcern

lol sure maga voted trumpedo but hes not sending leo to their counties..,, lol

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LA and Chicago fought back. NYC unfortunately is missing

nasorrty346tfrgser

It’s time for the big no thank you to trump and see how he processes that.

Senior-bud

Good. I'm here right now and, shockingly to conservatives, I've survived my first night.

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

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I heard some people are loving nuru balloons at the tires of the unwanted to help improve their traction on their way out of town.

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