Donald Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he’s got it.

The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple of months ago.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hate the notion of the National Guard in the streets of the city, but have failed to rally Chicago residents to do the one thing necessary to avoid the deployment — let federal officers do their job.

The word should have gone out long ago: Don’t riot outside ICE facilities. Don’t ram cars into ICE vehicles. Don’t keep ICE officers from making arrests. Don’t follow ICE vehicles in an attempt to disrupt operations. Don’t act as though the gestapo has descended

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