Chicago Democrat Alderman Backs Trump’s National Guard Deployment After Anti-ICE Violence
Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez, a Democrat, says rhetoric from the Illinois governor and the Chicago mayor are pushing the city and country to a dangerous place. He added that the anti-ICE radicals are showing why the deployment of National Guard Soldiers is necessary.
“The politics of this city and of hyper progressive liberalism is bringing us closer to the brink with an escalation that I don’t think any of us truly wants to see… The governor, the mayor, with a wink and a nod, told everyone to protest peacefully. And we’ve seen the exact opposite unfold.”
Nobody saw this coming. Those are the words of a Chicago Democrat, Alderman Raymond Lopez, a man with a front-row seat to the madness who has found the guts to tell the truth.
The situation in Chicago has spiraled completely out of control. Anti-ICE mobs, clearly empowered by the city’s political class, have been violently targeting federal agents. Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker offer the same tired lines about “peaceful protests.” What a surprise. They’ve turned their city into a sanctuary for anarchy, not for American families.
Alderman Lopez, one of the vanishingly few Democrats with the backbone to support President Trump’s plan to restore sanity, is having none of it. He sees the chaos for what it is: an open rebellion. “We cannot have our citizenry thinking that they can take up arms against the federal government and suffer no consequences,” Lopez declared, stating a simple truth that now passes for radical bravery in his party.
Reports surfaced that the Chicago Police Department was given orders not to help federal agents who were under attack. While the city’s officials deny it, the message was loud and clear: in Chicago, you’re on your own.
This stunning abdication of duty is precisely why, as Lopez put it, federal intervention was a “fore-drawn conclusion.” When a city’s leaders refuse to do their most basic job, the President has a sworn duty to step in. This wasn’t an overreach; it was a rescue mission forced by the city’s spectacular failure.
“The politics of this city and of hyper progressive liberalism is bringing us closer to the brink with an escalation that I don’t think any of us truly wants to see… The governor, the mayor, with a wink and a nod, told everyone to protest peacefully. And we’ve seen the exact opposite unfold.”
Nobody saw this coming. Those are the words of a Chicago Democrat, Alderman Raymond Lopez, a man with a front-row seat to the madness who has found the guts to tell the truth.
The situation in Chicago has spiraled completely out of control. Anti-ICE mobs, clearly empowered by the city’s political class, have been violently targeting federal agents. Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker offer the same tired lines about “peaceful protests.” What a surprise. They’ve turned their city into a sanctuary for anarchy, not for American families.
Alderman Lopez, one of the vanishingly few Democrats with the backbone to support President Trump’s plan to restore sanity, is having none of it. He sees the chaos for what it is: an open rebellion. “We cannot have our citizenry thinking that they can take up arms against the federal government and suffer no consequences,” Lopez declared, stating a simple truth that now passes for radical bravery in his party.
Reports surfaced that the Chicago Police Department was given orders not to help federal agents who were under attack. While the city’s officials deny it, the message was loud and clear: in Chicago, you’re on your own.
This stunning abdication of duty is precisely why, as Lopez put it, federal intervention was a “fore-drawn conclusion.” When a city’s leaders refuse to do their most basic job, the President has a sworn duty to step in. This wasn’t an overreach; it was a rescue mission forced by the city’s spectacular failure.
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