
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.
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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.

The Trump administration they are completely delusional right now, and what they are promulgating in this particular moment are not just unconstitutional measures.

Secretary Noem should no longer be able to step foot inside the State of Illinois without any form of public accountability.

For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.

State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people's ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.

I want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois.

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

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

This morning, the Trump Administration's Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will.

They will pull hardworking Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort to protect public safety.

In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.

My message of alarm is that the constitutional crisis is not on its way; it is here, and we all better start acting like it.

From public safety to public education to public transit, this president is cutting the services that working people rely upon.

At a time when federal agents are sowing chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration is holding bipartisan funding hostage.

South Siders have waited for more than 50 years for the Red Line Extension.

Argentina gets $20 billion and the South Side gets nothing. What happened to America First?

Our house is on fire, and our firefighters are using their hoses to water the lawn outside.