Watch: Chicago mayor draws line in the sand with executive order defying Trump

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson made it crystal clear during a press conference on Saturday that Donald Trump and his appointees should not expect any help from the local police and city workers if the president makes good on his threat to send in the National Guard to back up masked-ICE agents snatching immigrants off the streets.

Stating he had “no time to waste,” Johnson signed his own executive order, mirroring Trump’s favorite pastime besides golf, instructing city officials on how to deal with the coming militarization of their hometown.

With Chicago expected to be the next targeted city, Johnson pointedly said the Chicago Police Department will not “collaborate” and will instead protect Chicagoans from “federal overreach.”

According to the mayor, his executive order will “... protect ourselves from the threats and actions of this out-of-control administration. We will protect our Constitution. We will protect our city, and we will protect our people. 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. You don't want to see homeless Chicagoans harassed or disappeared by federal agents. We don't want to see Chicagoans arrested for sitting on their porch.”

“That's not who we are as a city, and that's not who we are as a nation,” he continued. “My team and I have spoken with the governor, the county president, and with our federal delegation, and we are in complete alignment. The time for action is now.”

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