by Tom Schuba, Mitchell Armentroutj, Mariah Woelfel, Cindy Hernandez and Anna Savchenko at Chicago Sun Times
Though crime has fallen in recent years, President Donald Trump is primed to make an example of Chicago this week, when federal immigration agents and National Guard troops are expected to begin blanketing the streets.
After gun violence surged in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, President Donald Trump made it clear the city is firmly in his crosshairs.
“We’re going in,” Trump said Tuesday after being asked whether National Guard troops were being deployed to the nation’s third largest city. “I didn’t say when.”
The president presented himself as a savior, claiming he can quickly solve an intractable problem that again came into sharp focus over the long weekend. Sixty people were shot, eight of them fatally, mostly in areas that have long borne the brunt of the city’s gun violence.
And while crime has fallen significantly in recent years, Trump is primed to make an example of Chicago this week, when federal immigration agents and National Guard troops are expected to begin blanketing the streets.
Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday decried Trump’s crime-fighting promise as a partisan ploy to justify an unnecessary military presence in the Democratically-led city. And the governor, along with Illinois’ other most powerful Democrats, are urging members of the public not to fall for it.
“We know before anything has happened here,…
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