CHICAGO (Reuters) -When U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to flood Chicago with National Guard troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents earlier this month, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said that the president lacked the legal authority.

But privately, Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson began discussing what they could do to shield Chicago from a federal deployment like those underway in two other Democrat-run cities with Black mayors, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Their conclusion: not much.

As Trump has amped up the threat of a federal deployment in the nation’s third-largest city in recent days, public officials and community organizers said they are doing what they can to get ready, however.

The offices of Pritzker and Johnson are closely coordinating.

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