This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested. I’m not going anywhere.
Mayor Brandon Johnson
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Mayor Brandon Johnson
@ChicagosMayor
- Argentina gets $20 billion and the South Side gets nothing. What happened to America First?$2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects--specifically the Red Line Extension and the Red and Purple Modernization Project--have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting. More info to come soon from @USDOT.
- The President’s threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution. We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump.
- This morning just after 1 a.m., a private Boeing 777 originating from San Antonio, Texas landed at the Rockford/Chicago airport carrying 350 asylum seekers. There was no communication from Texas, and the City of Chicago was alerted by authorities in Rockford regarding the flight.
- We will not tolerate ICE agents violating our residents’ constitutional rights nor will we allow the federal government to disregard our local authority. ICE agents are detaining elected officials, tear-gassing protestors, children, and Chicago police officers, and abusing
- Wicked and vile.Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
- Replying to @ChicagosMayorUpon landing, asylum seekers were placed on buses chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and dropped in various surrounding suburbs, left to find their way to the city. This is the second recorded instance of the Texas governor transporting asylum seekers via private plane.
- Scoreboard. 😉
00:00 - Chicago: the greatest freakin’ city in the world.
- Ted "Cancun" Cruz is the last person who knows anything about our history.
Which slaves built Chicago? 
On my way to Chicago to talk about building our economy from the middle out and bottom up.- We will not bend. We will not bow. We will not cower. Chicago will not submit to Trump's authoritarianism and I will use every resource at my disposal to Protect Chicago until Trump ends his war on the working people of our city.
