Watch: Pritzker Shows Us Who He Really Is in Response to Important Question on ICE Actions in Chicago
- Gov. Pritzker talks tough while avoiding face-to-face accountability with ICE agents.
- Chicago sees a spike in federal enforcement as local leaders play political theater.
- Pritzker’s words clash with reality on crime and public safety.
Chicago has been boiling over while federal immigration agents have ramped up efforts to detain criminal illegal immigrants, and the city’s response has been predictably political and performative.
Democrat city and state “leaders” have launched a war of words and lawsuits against the federal government, treating public safety like a messaging exercise rather than a policy problem, as this report shows.
Gov. JB Pritzker has led the anti-ICE chorus, even saying he was exploring legal moves to prosecute agents for alleged violations, according to another piece.
“So we’re looking at all of the options at the local level with county state’s attorneys, with attorneys general to go after people [ICE agents] when they’re breaking Illinois law, when they’re breaking local law,” Pritzker told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, a line that sounds decisive until you watch him dodge a tougher interview.
When Bret Baier of Fox pressed him on violent crime and homicides, Pritzker snapped. The anchor brought receipts and demanded straight answers that Pritzker clearly did not want to give.
In another segment, Pritzker tried to distance himself from the incendiary online clips that have inflamed violence against ICE, claiming he already knows what agents do.
Yet when Baier asked if he’d spend a day riding with ICE to see their work firsthand, the governor declined, offering a shrug instead of curiosity or courage.
“I can see what they do on the streets of Chicago,” Pritzker stated as he shook his head no.
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That refusal says more than any press release: Pritzker prefers staged outrage and secondhand clips to boots-on-the-ground understanding. He enjoys a 24-7 security detail and can posture about safety while Chicagoland residents live the consequences of rising crime.
He even praised the one thing he usually attacks, admitting the border clampdown helped Illinois: “…since President Trump has taken office, we don’t have the problem that existed before.”
Thanking help on one hand and attacking it with the other is political spin 101. Illinois voters deserve leaders who will sit in a car with ICE, listen, and do the hard work instead of playing both sides for headlines.
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