ABC Chicago: President-elect Trump plan to use military in mass deportations raising alarm in Illinois
Borderless: City Contractor ‘Failed’ Clients as Migrant Shelter Complaints Mounted, Staffers Say
Fox News: Chicagoans furious at Mayor Brandon Johnson over city’s migrant crisis: ‘We’re turning red’
National News
The New York Times: The Governor Who Helped Trump Get Elected (share link)
Some key quotes:
- If Trump rode a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to the Oval Office, Abbott helped whip up the storm.
- Trump performed better in 2024 than he had in 2020 in New York, Chicago and Denver, while Vice President Kamala Harris underperformed in each city compared with Biden. But Democrats in those cities believe it wasn’t about votes locally — it was about manufacturing negative headlines that would land in battleground states and beyond.
- “For the first time in history, the border crisis was not limited to border communities,” said Andrea Flores, a former director of border management on President Biden’s National Security Council. “President Biden provided no counternarrative to an effort by Governor Abbott to use human beings as political pawns.”
The New York Times: Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations (share link)
USA Today: Los Angeles enacts sanctuary city ordinance to protect migrants
The Guardian: Arizona immigrants fear return to mass arrests as state passes ‘secure our border’ act