Statement by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) on Trump’s Threats to Deploy Federal Troops to Chicago
Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR)
For Immediate Release: Monday, August 25, 2025
Media contact: Frank Chapman (312) 513-3795, Patricia Williams (773) 707-9014, media@caarpr.org
Statement by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) on Trump’s Threats to Deploy Federal Troops to Chicago
The Trump train is coming to town and we need to stop it in its tracks. The President’s threats to bring federal troops to Chicago are a clear, blatant attack on the Black community and the immigrant community. That’s what this is aimed at, repressing Black communities under the guise of fighting crime and repressing immigrant communities by implementing mass deportations and violating the right to due process of law.
This is far deeper than any constitutional crisis that we’ve ever had in this country since the Civil War. Not only should we take it seriously, and we do take it seriously, but we are calling on all the people, including their political representatives, to resist to the fullest extent of the law and through whatever means of resistance we can muster to stop Trump in his tracks and keep this military occupation of our community from happening.
Trump is violating the law. He has no legal, constitutional right to do what he’s doing. Neither the mayor or the governor of this state have called on him to deploy federal troops. This is an illegal military occupation of our community, and we have an inalienable democratic right to resist it.
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The Chicago Alliance was born in 1973 out of the movement to free Angela Davis and all political prisoners. Since then, the Alliance has defended the rights of workers and oppressed people in Illinois and around the world.
We defend the rights of workers and oppressed people. We struggle against white supremacy, the prison-industrial complex, and state violence. We demand community control of the police and full representation for Black people and other poor and oppressed people at all levels of government.