Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Says Trump is Turning Chicago into a ‘War Zone’ as Anti-ICE Protests Drag On
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has accused President Trump of trying to turn the city into a “war zone.”
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pritzker told host Jake Tapper that Trump sending in the National Guard is part of a strategy to create “mayhem on the ground.”
He explained:
Instead of going after the bad guys, they’re just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. Are you a U.S. citizen?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t carry around papers that say I’m a U.S. citizen. So you can imagine people are getting detained. They’re getting arrested, U.S. citizens.
And they did this, of course, when they raided a building in the middle of the night in South Shore, 130 people that were emptied out of this building.
They were going after a few gang members, and instead they broke windows.
They broke down doors, they ransacked the place, and there were people that were held. I mean, elderly people and children zip tied, elderly people held for three hours at a time. They are the ones that are making it a war zone.