PrairiePundit

  Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh · 1h NOW: JD Vance absolutely decimates Gov. JB Pritzker "Governor Pritzker will talk a lot about how bad Donald Trump is, about how bad I am, and about how bad the administration is. He is the governor of a state that where its biggest city has murder rates that rival the most violent places in the THIRD WORLD!" "WHY is he so mad at Donald Trump for trying to keep Chicagoans safe? He should be mad at the CRIMINALS that he has failed to keep at bay. We're trying to help him, and we're trying to help the residents of his biggest city." "I wish that he would let us, because he certainly isn't doing the job himself!" Chicago could be so much better if it had more responsible leadership. Democrats in Illinois don't appear up to the job. 

  Daily Signal President Donald Trump said Illinois’ Democrat leaders deserve to be in jail for letting crime run rampant in the city. “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday morning. “Governor Pritzker also!” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker have vocally opposed Trump’s deployment of 300 Texas National Guard members to clean up crime in the city and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Johnson signed an executive order this week creating “ICE Free Zones” to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from city property. The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit Monday to block the National Guard deployment. For 13 consecutive years, Chicago has had the most murders of any U.S. city. For seven consecutive years, Chicago has had the highest murder rate among U.S. cities with more than 1 million people. Trump has said for weeks he wants to use the Nationa...

  BBC: President Donald Trump has called for the jailing of Illinois officials, accusing them of not doing enough to ensure the safety of federal immigration officers who are conducting raids in Chicago. The president wrote in a social media post that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, both Democrats, "should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!" Trump has previously called the city a "war zone" amid protests against immigration enforcement. Pritzker has called the president's actions "authoritarian". The Republican president spoke as hundreds of National Guard troops arrived in the city as part of his immigration crackdown. The standoff raises the temperature in an already heated rhetorical battle between Trump and local officials in Democratic-led cities and states. The Chicago mayor quickly fired back at Trump, saying "this is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested. I...

 Newsmax: President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard members to Chicago on Saturday to protect federal officers and property, as the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman during a confrontation on the city’s southwest side. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said the president approved the deployment in response to what she described as “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness” that local leaders had not controlled. “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities,” Jackson said. ... The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Border Patrol agents were “rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” before agents exited their vehicle and fired “defensively” at a suspect who allegedly tried to run them over. A DHS spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, said the woman who was shot, identified as Marimar Martinez, was armed with a semiautomatic ...

It should be noted that Trump has already significantly reduced the killing and violence in Washington, DC. He did it by putting National Guard troops on the street to patrol. By increasing the force-to-space ratio, he was able to deny criminals access to crime.  Criminals generally look for vulnerable people and businesses, and that is hard to find when police and the National Guard are on patrol. See also: Donald Trump puts NBC reporter in their place with this humiliating rebuke

  Blaze: ... "Chicago will continue to have a 'violence problem' as long as Red states continue to have a gun problem," Johnson reiterated on X. "The endless flow of illegal guns into Chicago can be traced to Red states like Mississippi, Indiana, and Louisiana. It is up to the federal government to step up and stop interstate gun trafficking networks." RELATED: 'That is an outright lie!' Chicago pastor rips into Democrats over crime ... Johnson said the "vast majority" of firearms used in crimes do not come from Chicago. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Firearms Trace Data for 2023, at 9,147, Illinois was the number-one source state of guns that were recovered. Indiana was number two at 2,796. ... Mississippi and Louisiana were not among the top providers of weapons.  Most of them were purchased in Illinois, where Chicago is located. Chicago does have a crime problem, but it is mainly caused by hav...

  Newsmax: President Donald Trump issued another warning to Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker: Fix the violent crime "fast, or we're coming" with federal forces. "Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic governor of Illinois, just said he doesn't need help in preventing crime," Trump wrote Saturday evening in a Truth Social post . "He is crazy!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming! MAGA. President DJT." The mayor directed all city departments to guard the constitutional rights of Chicago residents "amidst the possibility of imminent militarized immigration or National Guard deployment by the federal government." When asked during a news conference about federal agents who are presumably "taking orders," Johnson replied: "Yeah, and I don't take orders from the federal government." Johnson also blocked Chicago police from wear...

For some reason, the city's Democrat mayor does not want help from Trump and federal law enforcement.  It looks like the City could use the help.  Trump's use of the National Guard in Washington, DC drastically reduced crime in that city, and the citizens in that city appreciated it. See also: Jason Cohen  @JasonJournoDC NEW: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she's *GRATEFUL* for Trump's crime crackdown "We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do." "For carjackings, the difference between this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents a 87% reduction in carjackings."