Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump escalated his war of words with Democratic officials in Illinois with a Truth Social post stating: “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!”
There’s no evidence that either Mayor Brandon Johnson or Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has done anything but follow the law and exercise their constitutional rights in opposing Trump’s immigration offensive in Chicago which now includes Texas National Guard troops.
But there is a growing body of evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are abusing their power so boldly that in a just world, they’d go to jail.
This morning, there is video of an ICE security officer shooting a peaceful protesting priest in the head with some kind of crowd cont