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National Guard Operation in Chicago is scheduled to begin in September
On Friday, US President Trump announced that he also wanted to use the National Guard in Chicago. According to a report, the plans for this have already been well advanced.
According to a report by the “Washington Post”, the Pentagon also wants to use the National Guard in the fight against crime in Chicago in September. The planning includes several options, including the sending of some a thousand members of the military reserve unit belonging to the US army in the third largest US city in the state of Illinois, the newspaper reported citing civil servants. According to the newspaper, the white house and the Pentagon rejected a statement.
You don’t want to make any speculation about future operations, it said from the Ministry of Defense. The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, and the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, accused the Republican US President Donald Trump to donate chaos. “After Trump used Los Angeles and Washington DC as test grounds for authoritarian attacks, he now plays openly with the idea of taking over other states and cities,” said Pritzker.
On the X platform he, Trump and the Republicans tried to present their party as a party for law and order. “That could no longer be away from the truth.”
Donald Trump and Maga Republicans Are Trying to Paint Their Party as One of “Law and Order.”
That Couldn’t Be Further from the Truth. https://t.co/mirfgu9ktn
– JB Pritzker (@jbpritzker) August 23, 2025
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Protests against Donald Trump’s controversial approach
Most recently, Trump activated the national guard to contain the allegedly out of control crime in the US capital Washington. He also put the local police under federal inspection. His procedure in Washington is heavily controversial – there have already been protests. The statistics of the police do not provide evidence of an increase in crime.
In June, despite protests in Los Angeles in Los Angeles, 4,000 members of the California National Guard and 700 active marine fans – according to demonstrations against abrasion agencies from the immigration authority ICE.
Trump had already said on Friday: “We will make our cities very, very safe. Chicago is a chaos.” He refrained from competence to the democratic mayor there.
National Guard Operation in Chicago has probably been planned for a long time
According to “Washington Post”, civil servants who are familiar with the matter said that a military intervention in Chicago has been planned for a long time, probably in connection with extended operations by the immigration and customs authority to find migrants without papers.
The states usually have control over the national guard. In special locations – for example in the case of natural disasters, unrest and emergencies inside – the president can put them under federal command. In the special case of the US capital, which is not a separate state, the national guard is directly subject to the president.
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