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.

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

Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they’re targeting violent criminals.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I will not stand idly by

There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops.

National Guard troops or any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don’t belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency – and there is not.

It’s an invasion with US troops, if they in fact do that.

They’ll be in court pretty quickly.

how we can stand up against this tyranny.