President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. The officials said they would not be deterred .

National Guard troops from Texas are now positioned outside Chicago, despite a lawsuit by the state and city to block their deployment. The troops’ mission is not clear but the Trump administration has undertaken an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the nation’s third largest city, and the president, contrary to statistics, has repeatedly claimed big cities run by Democrats are overwhelmed with crime.

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