Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton joined leaders in Lake County Friday to denounce President Donald Trump’s plan to use a nearby naval base to house hundreds of federal immigration agents as part of a potential surge in enforcement next week in Chicago.

Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago — the Navy’s largest training station and the largest military installation in the state — is being considered as a possible staging ground for the immigration blitz, the Chicago Sun-Times first reported. National Guard troops could also be sent to support the effort.

Like Gov. JB Pritzker, Stratton was defiant in the face of Trump’s plan to target Chicago, saying the president “knows Illinois wont stand silently by while our neighbors are snatched off the street in broad daylight.”

Paul Vala

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