{"id":62618,"date":"2025-10-05T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62618\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:18:07","slug":"trumps-security-secretary-calls-chicago-a-war-zone-after-federal-agents-shoot-woman-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62618\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s security secretary calls Chicago a \u2018war zone\u2019 after federal agents shoot woman \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristi Noem, US<\/a> president Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s homeland security secretary, called Chicago \u201ca war zone\u201d on Sunday after federal agents shot a woman and the governor of Illinois accused the administration of fuelling the crisis rather than resolving it.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Fox News Sunday morning, Ms Noem took aim at the city\u2019s mayor, Brandon Johnson, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration\u2019s Ice raids and deployment of the national guard in Illinois, a measure he called \u201cunhinged and unhealthy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wrong, there should be consequences for that and for leaders that stand up and knowingly lie about the situation on the ground,\u201d Ms Noem said. \u201cHis city is a war zone and he\u2019s lying so that criminals can go in there and destroy people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Noem\u2019s remarks followed Mr Trump\u2019s authorisation to deploy 300 members of the Illinois national guard to Chicago, with orders to protect federal officers and property. <\/p>\n

The move came just weeks after national guard troops were sent to Washington, where the president federalised the city\u2019s police force in what he described as a \u201ccrackdown\u201d on crime, a pattern now extending to a string of other US cities. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be doing Chicago probably next,\u201d Mr Trump had said at the time.<\/p>\n

Ms Noem defended the administration\u2019s course of action, insisting on Fox that residents supported the government intervention. \u201cThey understand that where we have gone we have made it much more free,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are much safer, we have got a thousand criminals that are off the streets of Chicago, just because we\u2019ve been there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appearing on CNN\u2019s State of the Union with Jake Tapper on Sunday, the Democratic Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, accused the administration of fuelling the crisis rather than resolving it. \u201cThey are the ones who are making it a war zone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to get out of Chicago. If they\u2019re not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what the president said they are going to do, they need to get the heck out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Border patrol agents on Saturday shot and injured a woman while firing at someone who tried to run them over. The woman who was shot was a US citizen and was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said, noting that the woman was accused in a US Customs and Border Protection intelligence bulletin last week of doxing agents.<\/p>\n

Mr Pritzker also condemned the deployment in a post on X on Saturday, writing: \u201cThe Trump Administration\u2019s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will.\u201d Pritzker called the decision \u201cabsolutely outrageous and un-American,\u201d and added that it had been made \u201cagainst our will\u201d. \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem, US president Donald Trump\u2019s homeland security secretary, called Chicago \u201ca war zone\u201d on Sunday after federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[969,42,43,40,38,41,39,115],"class_list":["post-62618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}