President Donald Trump says he will deploy the National Guard to Chicago to help with crime in the city.

“We’re going in. I didn’t say when. We’re going in,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday.

“Chicago is a hellhole right now, Baltimore is a hellhole right now,” he added.

Chicago ranks 13th in total crime rates for American cities with populations of at least 250,000, with Memphis, Cleveland and St. Louis plagued with the highest total crime rates, according to FBI crime data.

Even as Chicago’s crimes rates are down across the board this year , dozens of people were shot and at least seven people were killed in the city in a surge of violence over the Labor Day weekend.

The city’s leaders and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker have said they do not want U.S. troops to assist in

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