Just as I opined last week, it looks like Chicago’s the next stop on President Trump’s crime control crusade. After cleaning up Washington DC in a matter of a couple of weeks, it looks like Chicago’s next.
NBC5 Chicago reports that Governor JB Pritzker received a phone call from Team Trump telling him that the feds were coming to Chicago this week.
Of course, Mayor Moron and Governor Jelly Bean aren’t too happy.
Again from NBC5:
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker confirmed federal immigration agents will be coming to Chicago soon, citing a phone call he received from the federal government.
In an exclusive interview with NBC Chicago, Pritzker said after weeks of hearing no communication from the Trump administration, his team received a phone call, but not from the president himself. The phone call, made to Illinois State Police, came from Gregory Bovino, the border patrol sector chief for the El Centro, Texas sector. Bovino oversaw the immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles earlier this summer.
“[They said] they will begin operations here sometime in the coming week,” Pritzker told NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern. “That – literally after two weeks of all this talk about troops on the ground – that’s the first time we’ve heard from the federal government on this.”
“Did they give you a number?” Ahern asked.
“They did not,” Pritzker said.