J.B. Pritzker

It is striking fear in the hearts of everybody in Chicago, and we have residents — this isn't just about undocumented people.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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.

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.

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

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

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

Every American to speak up to help stop this madness.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.