The Democrat blasted Trump's ''invasion'' hours after the president mobilized 300 Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, National Guard members to Portland, where unrest has raged for over 100 consecutive days outside an immigration detention center — a scene that has been playing out in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...since September.
Pritzker said the plan defies his wishes, adding that federal officials haven't reached out to coordinate or discuss the deployment.
''We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion,'' the governor said in a post on X, encouraging ''every American to speak up and help stop this madness.''
''It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will not involve sending in another state's military troops. I call on [Texas] Governor [Greg] Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate.''
Pritzker condemned Trump for wanting to send active-duty troops to a ''sovereign state'' without permission, accusing the president of using the National Guard as ''political props.''
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