Chicago Braces for a Trump National Guard Plan

In the southern side of Chicago, few people looked arranged for President Donald Trump’s troops.

But many here would tell you about another battle – one about the souls of the young.

We went through neighborhoods known for their levels of violence. In one, bronzeville, we went to the place where seven people were shot dead last weekend and injured in a driving attack.

It was a block of Chicago Police HQ. The killed were at least 58 people shot, eight fatal, throughout the city on the holiday weekend of Labor Day.

Rob White, the coach of young men who are trying to turn their sliding into gangs, told us, “You can imagine how the inhabitants feel (things) that happen just below their nose,” referring to the attack that took place close to a giant, fortified police building.

On Friday, Trump said he had decided another city in the United States, where he planned to deploy the National Guard troops in what he believed would be an offer to support crime – without revealing location.

But the colleague of G -n White, Canoa Ali, counteracts Trump’s claim.

“The result (a decline in crime) is already happening,” said Ali. “The troops are already here. We are the troops.”

The crime numbers of Labor Day were quoted by Trump this week as part of his threat to the militaries Chicago. He told reporters that the National Guard would “enter” to deal with what he called a crime “out of control.”

Such moves recently followed in Los Angeles and Washington. In Chicago, urban and state authorities promised to resist the unfolding of what The Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker Called President of “Non -Disposed.”

The violent crime in Chicago has actually fallen significantly over the last two years.

Between January and June, the killing rate dropped by one -third compared to the same period last year, according to the Criminal Justice Council.

But the total levels in Chicago remain significantly higher than the average for many cities in the United States.

Chief Larry Sneling, who heads the power at the Chicago police station, told us that the killings had fallen by 125 last year, with the victims of the shooting down by more than 700.

“The National Guard has no police powers. They have no authority to arrest,” he said.

“There should be a serious coordination between the police department and the National Guard … If I could have more officers, (I would like to) help, 100 percent,” added G -N Sneling.

In a makeshift classroom d -n -White, the coach, started in an exclusive solution. They were sitting around a table were a dozen young men, all participants in Chicago Credit, a non -profit purpose in order to reduce violence with weapons.

D -n White asked for performances on your hands: “How many of all were you in the joint or were you in the county?” Several hands climbed.

“Keep your hand if you’re shot.” More hands.

We then discussed the President’s proposal to deploy troops.

“The entry of the police will not be the answer to this problem, will it?” said G -n White.

But the lines became great when we moved to another neighborhood, Canariville.

Hanging from picket fences that separate lawns, stars and stripes mixed with banners for the pro-Polyic Blue Lives Matter campaign.

Here Trump’s threat to militarization of a third American city resonated.

“I can’t wait until they get here,” said the 68 -year -old Tom Stack as he shouted on the other side of us.

“You have to get rid of the criminals. This city is crazy, there is too much crime, it’s common sense,” he said.

According to G -n White, the problem is partly caused by the redundancies of the financing that the Trump administration has made programs for the prevention of crime in Chicago and elsewhere.

Now this is a sharp complaint from the Democrats who run the city, saying that the financing of programs aimed at trafficking in weapons from countries with more free weapons laws than Illinois was crucial to the resulting in the rise of violent crime.

Previously, Trump defended the federal cuts for funding for such crime prevention projects, accusing cities of Democrats in Radical Left or Awakening the policy of criminal justice.

While the president can deploy the National Guard troops in repression of violence crime, he may also order them to support a major operation to implement immigration to the city.

In one of the main Latin American communities in Chicago, Little Village, there are flags raised, ready to celebrate the Mexican Independence Day. But there is also anxiety, such as many overwhelmed immigration and customs agents (ICE), they may soon start to melt attacks.

Outside a local packaging factory, dozens of workers are already in their thirteenth strike week. They ask, among other requests, for a written guarantee by their employer, that they will be protected from unjustified attacks in the workplace.

On the line of the Pickee Arturo Landa, a mechanic, said he was concerned about the community -directed ice agents.

“We have seen many things. They stop people (in other cities), and the new administration is not interested in whether someone has their own documents. They discriminate against people’s skin,” he said.

The Trump Administration, which continues the ice raids in Los Angeles and Washington, has repeatedly stated that it is aimed at undocumented migrants who are illegally in the country and fulfills its promise to deport them.

In Chicago, the fears that the city could be next to see large immigration raids, encouraged organizers to postpone El Groto Chicago, the city’s official Festival for the Mexican Independence Day next week.

In a message on social media, they wrote: “It was a painful solution, but the hold of El Groto Chicago at that time placed the safety of our community – and that is a risk we do not want to take.”