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The mayor of a small town outside of Chicago on Tuesday insisted her community doesn’t want National Guard troops deployed to the area after weeks of protesters clashing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.

Katrina Thompson, the mayor of Broadview, a village with a population of under 8,000 just west of downtown Chicago, held a press conference Tuesday about the federal presence in the town, emphatically saying, “We don’t want them here.”

“We don’t need them,” Thompson later told WLS-TV in an interview. “We can govern ourselves, and we have been doing that until this point.”

Thompson’s remarks come after multiple suggestions from President Donald Trump that the Chicago area could benefit from having National Guard tr

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