CBS’s Ed O’Keefe asked Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Sunday on “Face The Nation,” what he would say to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem about the Trump administration considering deploying the National Guard to the streets of Chicago:

ED O’KEEFE, CBS NEWS: We’re speaking with Homeland Security Secretary Noem on Sunday. If she were to call you, what would you say? What’s your message to her? GOV. PRITZKER: Well, I’d tell her that what she’s doing is inflaming passions and causing disruption that doesn’t need to be caused. We have people that have lived, yes in the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago for decades, working here, paying taxes. They’re law abiding members of our communities, friends, neighbors, and why are we arresting them? Why are we making them disappear? Indeed, they’re even disrupting the lives of people who are attempting to go through a legal process to stay in this country, who’ve been invited to a hearing, and then they’re arresting them in the hallways on their way to that hearing. So this is dangerous. They shouldn’t be doing it. It’s anti-American. It’s un-American. And I would tell her to maybe check herself for what does she really believe? ED O’KEEFE: She’s also critical of the fact that Chicago is one of those cities that doesn’t cooperate with federal immigration operations and she was quoted as saying that Illinois, quote, “refuses to have our back.” GOV. PRITZKER: Well, that’s not true. In fact, there were police officers who made sure that there was nobody interfering or attacking or causing problems for the ICE officials that were here. People have a right to express themselves. People have a right to their First Amendment, you know, freedom to express and we protect that too in the city of Chicago. So it’s not true that the- nobody has their backs. What we won’t do, however, is engage in what is a federal effort, that is to say they have their job, immigration. We have our job, which is to fight violent crime on the streets of our city and by the way, we’re succeeding at that job, but when they bring people in and don’t coordinate with us, they’re going to cause enormous problems.
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