President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of 300 military personnel of the National Guard in Chicago to decide what, according to him, is an uncontrolled crime.
This step occurred a few hours after the immigration authorities stated that they were faced with protesters in the democrats. Officials said that the “armed woman” was shot dead after she claimed that she and others rammed her vehicles on vehicles of law enforcement agencies.
For several weeks, state and local leaders criticized the plans for the deployment of Trump and called it abuse of power. Governor Illinois J. B. Pritzker said that Trump was “trying to make a crisis.”
The announcement became a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, temporarily blocked the Trump administration to deploy 200 military personnel there.
The assistant secretary of the Ministry of Internal Security, Trisha, Maklaflin in her statement: “The agents could not move their vehicles and got out of the car. One of the drivers who rammed the vehicle of law enforcement agencies was armed with semi -automatic weapons. ”
“Law enforcement agencies were forced to deploy their weapons and shots in defense of the US armed citizen,” she added.
Judge Karin Immort called Trump's statements about the conditions in Portland “continuous for facts”, and said that this step violated the constitution.
She said that the use of the armed forces to suppress the riots without the consent of the state of Oregon, which risks the sovereignty of this state and others, adding that it also inflamed tension in the city and caused an increase in protests.
Immergut ruled that the arguments of the administration regarding deployment “risk the risk of erosion between the civil and military federal authorities – to the detriment of this nation.”
Although it is unclear whether the troops arrived in Chicago, any such deployment will probably be found with legal problems.
Getty imagesThe city is the last – many of them, led by the Democrats – are intended for the disputed deployment of troops, joining Washington, Los -Andegeles, Memphis and Portland.
The deployment is asked by both legal and constitutional issues, since the troops of the National Guard are usually deployed by the Governor of the state and Successful laws limit the use by the government of the military For home issues.
In Chicago, there is an increase in protests regarding immigration support in the city, many of which occur outside the US immigration and customs equipment.
“Among the ongoing violent unrest and the lawlessness that local leaders love [Gov] Pritzker refused to intervene in Quell, President Trump authorized 300 national guards to defend federal officers and assets, ”said the press secretary of the White House Ebigail Jackson. “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to lawlessness, from which American cities.”
On Saturday – shortly before Trump authorized the troops there – the employees of the US border patrol shot a woman in Chicago after a group of people rammed cars into immigration vehicles, the statement of the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) said. The woman was armed, the statement said.
The woman's injuries were unclear. DHS said she went to a local hospital.
Earlier this week, the president spoke about his ongoing military deployments to the cities of the United States, addressing senior leaders throughout the military.
He told military leaders that he wanted American cities to be used as “training grounds” for American troops so that they could fight the “enemy from the inside” and suppress the riots.
“They are very unsafe places, and we are going to straighten them one after another,” he said about the cities under the leading democrats, including Chicago. He told the military leaders that this will be “an important part for some people in this room.”
Trump threatened to send troops in Chicago for almost a month – referring to crime and shooting in the city.
Violent crimes in Chicago have fallen significantly over the past two years. In the period from January to June, the level of murders decreased by the third compared to the same period last year, the Council for Criminal Justice reports.
But the general levels in Chicago remain much higher than on average for many cities in the United States. Last month, at least 58 people were lost – eight deadly – on the holiday weekend of labor.
