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Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered forceful rhetoric but few concrete answers today ahead of an expected deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to the Chicago area, the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign targeting the nation’s third-largest city.

Speaking at a news conference on the West Side in which he signed an executive order he said would deter U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement , Johnson told Chicagoans to stand together against the White House’s mounting threats of a military occupation, which he dubbed “the war on Chicago.”

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