{"id":17036,"date":"2025-10-05T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=17036"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:09:20","slug":"trumps-feldzug-gegen-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/trumps-feldzug-gegen-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Campaign Against Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday morning, an unremarkable intersection in southwest Chicago turned into a reflection of American power politics. Against the backdrop of escalating immigration raids, a federal officer shot a female driver who \u2013 according to Washington \u2013 had tried to ram a law enforcement vehicle, armed with a semiautomatic weapon. Evidence? None? The woman, a U.S. citizen named Marimar Martinez, survived, was taken to a hospital, and later placed in FBI custody. The Department of Homeland Security stated that the officers had only defended themselves after their vehicle was \u201cboxed in by ten cars.\u201d But witnesses describe the situation differently. A woman was shot, another man \u2013 Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz \u2013 arrested, allegedly also involved in the incident. His mother, Elizabeth Ruiz, said her son had called her during the gunfire, panicked and confused, before agents overpowered him. When she asked why he was being arrested, she received no answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hours later, the streets were filled with demonstrators, many waving American and Mexican flags, whistling, shouting, some with tears in their eyes. \u201cICE go home,\u201d they shouted as federal officers fired pepper balls back. We are currently investigating this incident and will report further tomorrow. Yet the scene that unfolded near 39th Street and South Kedzie Avenue was more than a local confrontation \u2013 it became a symbol of how far Donald Trump is now willing to go to enforce his idea of \u201claw and order\u201d through military force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even as protesters chanted at the scene and tear gas hung in the air, the president had already escalated to the next level. Three hundred soldiers of the Illinois National Guard are to be deployed to Chicago \u201cto protect federal officers and federal property,\u201d according to the White House order. It is the latest episode in a troubling pattern \u2013 Trump is sending troops to more and more cities, against the explicit will of the individual states. While Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called it an \u201cun-American ultimatum,\u201d Trump described the cities resisting his presence as \u201cwar zones.\u201d The rhetoric sounds like martial law, the tone like war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n