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We do not want or need military occupation in our city. We do not want or need militarized immigration enforcement in our city.

This president doesn’t care about gun violence. He just wants his own secret police force that would do publicity stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking.

When armed troops are sent into American communities to suppress protests, to target civil society leaders, or to facilitate the disappearance of our neighbors, it is not just a local issue.

Violent crime rates have fallen 22% today. Homicides are down more than 33% in the past year, while shootings are down by 38%.

We have less than 30 days to pass a spending budget.

This executive order makes it emphatically clear that this president is not going to come in and deputize our police department.

I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal. ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it’s being done in the fake guise of fighting crime.

This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.

One violent crime is too many, and we have more work to do.

There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops.

No, I will not call the president asking him to send troops to Chicago.

I will not stand idly by

Members of Congress should serve the public, not pad their stock portfolios.

Donald Trump is trying to take that money away. And he isn't listening to the business community here.

We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American.

It's anti-American. It's un-American. And I would tell her to maybe check herself for, what does she really believe?

What she's doing is inflaming passions and causing disruption that doesn't need to be caused.

Donald Trump is now doing the same thing. He's taking away federal funding for those programs which are so important to us.