Things have been tense in Chicago in recent weeks as federal immigration agents… increased efforts to track down and apprehend criminal illegal immigrants in the Windy City amid doxxing and violence by far-left activists.
At the same time, the war was escalating wordswhich included lawsuits between Democratic city and state “leaders” in Illinois and the Trump administration.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) has, of course, led the strategy of spreading anti-ICE messages among his fellow Democrats, going so far as to say he is exploring legal options to try to hold ICE agents accountable for allegedly breaking the law like we reported previously.
“So we are looking at all options at the local level with the county attorneys and the attorneys general who will be prosecuting people. [ICE agents] when they violate Illinois law, when they violate local law,” Pritzker told MSNBC host and former Biden-Harris administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki in an interview Thursday.
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But while Pritzker's interview with Psaki threw a lot of curveballs, the interview he did with Fox News' Bret Baier was a different story: Baier pressed him on several fronts, including on the issue of violent crime, particularly murder. The governor was unhappy when the Fox News host brought the receipts:
Bayer: “Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate of any major city?”
Pritzker: “We're not in the top 30.”
Bayer: *shows him a map that shows Chicago is number one*
Pritzker: “Look, you can increase the statistics, but our murder rate has been cut in half.” pic.twitter.com/1Sg2JbyeIR
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 23, 2025
In another segment, Pritzker talked briefly to himself, pretending not to fan the flames of the incendiary rhetoric that has led to attempts on ICE agents' lives and declaring that he knows exactly what offenses they are allegedly committing.
And yet, when Baier asked him if he would be willing to spend a day with ICE agents to see what they actually do and what they would have to go through, the potential 2028 presidential candidate declined.
“I see what they do on the streets of Chicago,” Pritzker said, shaking his head: “No.”
Look:
Pritzker: “ICE agents are literally doing racial profiling… Literally grabbing people and assaulting them when they are U.S. citizens.”
Bayer: “Could you go with ICE to Chicago to better understand what they do?”
Pritzker: “No. I see… pic.twitter.com/TsIWmwFN1V
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 23, 2025
In other words, he would rather sit comfortably in his safe place and wallow in ignorance and distorted social media clips posted by left-wing agitators rather than see for himself that what is being claimed about ICE is actually true. There's a word for it, and it rhymes with the name “Howard.”
But then again, what else can we expect from a guy who has 24/7 paid security and literally boasted about how safe Chicago was the day after a particularly violent Labor Day weekend that saw 37 shootings over a three-day period, resulting in 58 people being shot, eight of them fatal?
Surprisingly, Pritzker also gave up entirely on Jekyll and Hyde, praising the man he compared to Hitler for closing the border, which he said helped reduce some of the problems Illinois faced with an influx of illegal immigrants under the Biden-Harris administration.
“…since President Trump took office, we don't have the same problem that we had before.”
Even J.B. Pritzker admits Biden's border policies have been disastrous and praises President Trump.
PRITZKER: “I asked President Biden… to deal with some problems at the border… and we have not received any help… since President Trump took office, we have not… pic.twitter.com/gHE5EtB0Rz
— RNA Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2025
Thanking him on the one hand for his help, and slapping him on the other. Come on Illinois, you have to do better in future election cycles. You simply must.
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