A former top U.S. Department of Homeland Security official is keeping an eye on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign in Chicago. And he doesn’t like what he is seeing. Gil Kerlikowske was Customs and Border Protection commissioner from 2014 to 2017. For eight years before that, he was police chief of Seattle, where there were hundreds of protests. He gave a sworn statement for a lawsuit the state of Illinois has brought against Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops here. He also spoke with WBEZ’s Chip Mitchell. Their conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Gil Kerlikowske: If you’re a local police officer, such as a Chicago police officer, you go through months and months of training at an academy and then you’re put with senior officers and you’re

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