After President Donald Trump federalized the Washington, D.C., police department and deployed National Guard troops there to fight violent crime, he promised Chicago would be next.

“Chicago is a mess,” Trump told reporters in August. “Chicago is very dangerous.”

Weeks later, the Department of Homeland Security launched “Operation Midway Blitz” to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew [Illinois] Governor [JB] Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”

The Trump administration says the presence of undocumented immigrants with criminal records justifies the need for hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops to tamp down what his team characterizes as runaway violent

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