WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 White House border czar Tom Homan defended President Trump\u2019s decision to dispatch the National Guard to Chicago. Homan said the move could begin as soon as next week in an interview with CNN.<\/p>\n
Homan told Jake Tapper of State of the Union on Sunday, \u201cYou can expect action in most sanctuary cities across the country. President Trump\u2019s prioritized sanctuary cities because sanctuary cities knowingly release illegal alien public safety threats to the streets every day. That\u2019s where the problem is.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Trump dispatched the National Guard to Washington in August despite opposition from DC residents. Trump has since boasted that the city is \u201cNOW A CRIME FREE ZONE,\u201d and turned to cities such as Chicago, New Orleans and Baltimore to expand his crackdown on immigration and crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going in,\u201d Trump said, describing a National Guard deployment to the capital of Illinois last Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a force multiplier,\u201d Homan told Tapper about the National Guard. \u201cThey\u2019re on the table. I mean, they have been used by every administration since I have been working for the government starting in 1984. Every administration has used the Guard and the military on the border. And they have been very beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump further escalated tensions on Saturday after a post on Truth Social depicting himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from \u201cApocalypse Now,\u201d a 1979 film on the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
The post reads, \u201cChicago about to find out why it\u2019s called the Department of War,\u201d referencing the order he signed on Friday, renaming the Defense Department to the Department of War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 White House border czar Tom Homan defended President Trump\u2019s decision to dispatch the National Guard…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,4219,11452,5386,1818,409,7090,59792,5414,277],"class_list":{"0":"post-209693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-deployment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-national-guard","15":"tag-sanctuary-cities","16":"tag-tom-homan","17":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115167618958987638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}