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 will not tolerate ICE agents violating our residents’ constitutional rights nor will we allow the federal government to disregard our local authority.

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.

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

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

Peaceful protesters have been hit with tear gas and shot with rubber bullets; journalists simply reporting the facts on the ground have been targeted and arrested; U.S. citizens, including children, have been traumatized and detained.

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

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

every American to speak up to help stop this madness.

I call on [Texas] Governor [Greg] Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate.

They are the ones that are making it a war zone.

I believe they're going to be Illinois national guardsmen, so they're not going to be coming from out of state. I spoke to our governor yesterday, and it looks like it's going to be about 300 Illinois guardsmen who will be activated…

Call up your troops, or we will.

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

First of all, she has no idea what she’s talking about.

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.

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