As President Donald Trump mulls sending the National Guard to occupy Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered a defiant message to the White House at a spirited Labor Day rally Monday.

“No federal troops in the city of Chicago! No militarized force in the city of Chicago!” Johnson said in a short speech steps from the Haymarket memorial for the labor rally that was bombed in 1886.

“We’re going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago,” Johnson added. “We’re going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.”

The mayor of America’s third-largest city spoke alongside a group of labor leaders as Trump administration officials have said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement blitz is set to take place in Chicago in coming days.

The Republican president has

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