Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Saturday, unleashing a plan to counter a looming federal immigration crackdown and a possible National Guard deployment threatened by President Donald Trump.

The legislation signed by Johnson establishes the Protecting Chicago Initiative, a directive to protect the constitutional rights of residents, according to the mayor’s office.

“We do not have the luxury of time,” the mayor stated. “We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some type of militarized activity by the federal government. It is unclear at this time what that will look like exactly.”

The order, which Johnson said is the most drastic executive action taken in any U.S. city in response to immigration enforcement, establish

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