President Donald Trump's move comes after Gov. JB Pritzker said earlier this week the Department of Homeland Security requested deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois “for the protection of ICE personnel and facilities.”
I’m lost on this strategy. Is he using the national guard to make the states’ budgets cover protection for the ICE goon squads? We all know ICE has plenty of money and resources to protect themselves. I assume the states foot the bill for their respective national guard contingents.
a) he’s already doing that, so that wouldn’t get him the terrorizing headlines he wants b) he really wants the optics of deploying the military and going to war with evil “Democrat” cities because he’s a fascist prick
I’m lost on this strategy. Is he using the national guard to make the states’ budgets cover protection for the ICE goon squads? We all know ICE has plenty of money and resources to protect themselves. I assume the states foot the bill for their respective national guard contingents.
He’s using the National Guard because it’s explicitly criminal to use the regular army
He could use the FBI, ATF, more ICE, etc.
And is in fact doing so. But regular army is much better trained to kill rather than arrest
a) he’s already doing that, so that wouldn’t get him the terrorizing headlines he wants b) he really wants the optics of deploying the military and going to war with evil “Democrat” cities because he’s a fascist prick
When the feds issue the deployment order, they start covering the bills