Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, center, speaks; flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson, right. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
"They don’t even honor our detainers in Chicago," the secretary added, as detainers play a key role in keeping an individual behind bars so they can be transferred from local to federal custody. In a post on Tuesday, DHS said "it is DISGUSTING" that the governor "chooses to fight for the violent illegal alien killers in Chicago instead of his American constituents."
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The federal government can technically have a degree of oversight over the capital city’s police force, but there are now National Guard troops and federal agencies like ICE and the FBI on the streets of D.C. in an effort to curb crime, including immigration-related arrests.
"At least 54 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, 8 people were killed. The last two weekends were similar. Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far," Trump posted to Truth Social on Tuesday.
TRUMP'S WEEK SHAPED BY CRIME AGENDA, POTENTIAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT TO CHICAGO
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) conduct a traffic stop near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. on August 14, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
"This executive order makes it emphatically clear that this president is not going to come in and deputize our police department," Johnson said at a news conference.
"We will protect our Constitution, we will protect our city, and we will protect our people," he continued. "We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart. We do not want grandmothers thrown into the back of unmarked vans. We don't want to see homeless Chicagoans harassed or disappeared by federal agents."
On Friday, Pritzker dubbed the possibility of troop deployment to the city an "invasion."
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"It's clear that, in secret, they're planning this. Well, it's an invasion with U.S. troops, if they, in fact, do that," Pritzker told CBS' Ed O'Keefe.
Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Pritzker and Johnson.
Fox News Digital's Hanna Panreck, Anders Hagstrom and Emma Bussey contributed to this report.
Cameron Arcand is a politics writer at Fox News Digital in Washington D.C. Story tips can be sent to Cameron.Arcand@Fox.com and on Twitter: @cameron_arcand
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