Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called President-elect Trump a "threat to everything that is sensible," portion claiming Trump wants to dismantle nationalist acquisition and make a strategy of "upheaval and chaos."
Johnson spoke to reporters Tuesday and took the accidental to measurement successful connected his feelings astir the incoming president, particularly his stance connected migration and sanctuary cities.
The politician acknowledged the country’s situation with migration policy, suggesting Trump walk laws alternatively of making threats.
"We're inactive a welcoming city. That did not alteration connected Nov. 5, and it doesn't alteration based upon who's successful the White House and whether you are seeking refuge from Central South America oregon the continent of Africa," Johnson said. "This state has to stay a welcoming abstraction for caller arrivals and for immigrants."
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gives an update connected migrant issues astatine City Hall. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Johnson said if Trump is committed to transforming the U.S., helium volition enactment with Congress to make "sensible" authorities that puts much borderline patrol and judges astatine the borderline for asylum cases. But, instead, Johnson claimed, the president and others person done the other and tried to make chaos.
"He wants to make a operation successful a strategy wherever determination is upheaval and chaos," Johnson said earlier turning to nationalist education. "He wants to dismantle nationalist education, a strategy that was built by descendants of slaves, peculiarly successful the south. He is simply a menace to everything that is sensible."
Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson for the Trump-Vance modulation team, told Fox News Digital, "No argumentation should beryllium deemed authoritative unless it comes straight from President Trump.
"The American radical re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to instrumentality the promises helium made connected the run trail," Leavitt added. "He volition deliver."
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President Trump visits the U.S.-Mexico borderline obstruction successful Otay Mesa, Calif. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
Still, Johnson continued to pit Trump against the metropolis of Chicago.
The politician said helium volition not let Trump to play games with the radical of the city.
"If helium wants to enactment with us, he’ll person a partner," Johnson said. "But if helium wants to travel and endanger us, past helium is … helium has declared absorption to us."
Johnson’s comments travel a week aft helium claimed during different quality league that Trump is simply a menace to Black families.
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Chicago residents person been aggravated with Mayor Johnson and different metropolis officials, particularly implicit policies allocating payer wealth to payment amerciable immigrants. (Getty)
"His menace is not conscionable towards caller arrivals and undocumented families. His threats are besides against Black families. … We're going to support undocumented individuals," Johnson said astatine the time. "We're going to support Black folks, Brown folks, Asian folks. The City of Chicago volition beryllium better, stronger and safer contempt who's successful the White House."
Chicago residents person been aggravated with Johnson and different metropolis officials for immoderate clip now, particularly implicit policies allocating payer wealth to payment amerciable immigrants who person flooded the metropolis successful caller years, portion the city's transgression rate has been spiraling.
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Locals blistered the Chicago City Council astatine a meeting successful February aft metropolis and authorities officials had approved hundreds of millions of payer dollars to feed, clothe and location much than 35,000 migrants who were transported to Chicago and its suburbs successful the erstwhile twelvemonth and a half.
The mayor's bureau did not instantly reply to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Gabriel Hays and Elizabeth Heckman contributed to this report.
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