We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion.

It will cause only more unrest, including harming social fabric and community relations and increasing the mistrust of police.

The Trump administration’s illegal actions already have subjected and are subjecting Illinois to serious and irreparable harm.

Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act so that he can send military troops to our city.

The Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion.

I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.

Call up your troops, or we will.

It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being White. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now ICE is making it commonplace.

No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion.

It’s been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them.

They had followed them and gotten them cornered, pinned them down.

So our intelligence indicates that these people are organized.

Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked — rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon.

Let’s remember that [the] mayor has a less than 6% approval rating in Chicago.

This is a war zone. His city is a war zone, and he’s lying so that criminals can go in there and destroy people’s lives.

Absolutely, he’s giving them air cover.