Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal law enforcement to cities was “an invasion with U.S. troops.”
Partial transcript as follows:
ED O’KEEFE: Governor Pritzker, thank you for doing this, and thanks for the tour. We appreciate it. I want to start with the fact that we’ve now learned the Trump administration is preparing to launch what they call major immigration enforcement here in Chicago in the coming days. The Homeland Security Secretary on Friday suggested, quote “going to use LA as an example.” So that mix of federal agents deploying with the assistance of National Guard troops potentially, to protect them and federal property. What’s your response to those apparent plans?
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PRITZKER: Well, they’ve been
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