Donald Trump proposes deploying the National Guard in New Orleans
President Donald Trump proposed that the National Guard could be sent to New Orleans rather than Chicago as part of his oppression of his growing crime.
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Illinois Governor is threatening President Donald Trump. The mayor of Chicago urged the federal government to “invest without breaking in.” And organizers of the festival celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day have cancelled their event.
Chicagoans are blessed with a potential surge in federal immigration agents and National Guard troops that can be launched soon this weekend despite voice protests from state and local leaders and Chicago residents.
“There is no emergency here that guarantees military deployment,” Democratic Gov. J.B. Pretzker said in a September 4 post on social media site X.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said there is no emergency in the city and urged the Trump administration to use its resources to help the city solve other issues, such as housing affordability and homelessness.
“If you want to help the federal government invest, not invasion,” he said in X.
Meanwhile, the popular two-day El Grito Chicago Festival has been put on hold due to reports that a ramp-up of an ice attack could reach along with the National Guard deployment, where it is expected.
The organizers said in a post on the festival’s website, but “the safety of the community is at risk at this time,” the organizers said.
Trump has recently waffled about whether he will deploy his troops to Chicago. On September 2nd, he said, “We’re going.” Then before returning a statement a day later, he said he was still determined.
He suggested that Pretzker invite him to send the National Guard to Chicago, but the governor resisted the idea. “I have this incompetent governor who wants to go to Chicago and doesn’t want us,” he said.
Crime in Chicago has been on a downward trend since the early 1990s, according to a review of the Chicago Police Department’s annual crime report.
Most violent and property crimes fell in 2024, the most recent period in which annual data is available compared to the previous year. And violent crime has declined dramatically since its peak 30 years ago.
In 1992, Chicago police recorded 940 murders and more than 41,000 worsening attacks. Last year, according to the annual report, there were 580 murders and worsening attacks of less than 8,000.
“One murder is too many,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said in an X post.
The Chicago Police Department said it is operating under a consent ruling with the Illinois Attorney General to improve police practices to keep both community members and officers safe and restore and build community trust in the department. The agreement should focus on community policing, improving crisis interventions, and improving Force use compliance.
Trump is at his disposal the National Guard to achieve his immigration enforcement and crime-fighting plans.
He ordered the National Guard to Los Angeles earlier this year, quelling protests against immigrant raids there and deploying National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. to combat crime.
The capital’s deployment was extended until November 30th, but it is not clear whether the military will patrol the city forever. The public safety emergency that Trump declared for DC in August is expected to expire on September 10th.
