Chicago leaders denounce Pentagon plans for military deployment in city

City and state leaders pilloried the Trump administration for planning to home in on Chicago — the third most populous city in the United States — as the next target for a military deployment in the name of addressing crime, immigration and homelessness, calling the idea unlawful and unnecessary.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said the state was not experiencing any emergency that would warrant a National Guard presence like that which the Pentagon has been considering. Instead, Pritzker said, President Donald Trump was “attempting to manufacture a crisis.”