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.

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.

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.

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

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

Call up your troops, or we will.

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.

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

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.