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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to President-elect Donald Trump‘s plans to ramp up deportation plans for Chicago by calling him “evil” for wanting to rid the city of illegal immigrants.

Appearing on CNN host Victor Blackwell’s “First of All” podcast, Johnson spewed out leftist anti-Trump talking points but stopped short of confirming he would block Trump’s deportation efforts,

“Well, you know, unfortunately — first of all, good morning and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to the people of the globe,” the mayor began.

“Look the president elect and the former president of the United States of America, Trump, has demonstrated an incredible disdain for people, and my responsibility as Mayor of the City of Chicago is to invest in people, to protect people, and connect them to the resources that are ultimately needed in order to build not just a better, stronger, safer Chicago, but to build in the economy that’s sustainable,” Johnson said as he attempted to avoid the question.

“You know, this President has shown disdain towards not just immigrants, but lovers of public education. He is dead set on abolishing the entire education department,” he added.

“As a former public school teacher, as a product of public education, as someone who sends my children to public schools; working people around this country want public education to work,” Johnson said.

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“He has shown an incredible animus towards public housing. Public Housing has been the way in which families have found true stability, their ability to experience a human right. He has demonstrated contempt towards vouchers, which would ultimately make it hard for families to access affordable homes. We built 3600 affordable homes in the city of Chicago since I’ve been in office,” the left-wing mayor said.

“He’s also shown a great deal of evilness towards the Department of the Environment. He doesn’t believe in science.”

“Twenty percent of the world’s fresh water is right here in the city of Chicago. We can build a green, blue economy to create real, sustainable opportunities for people. And so he has not just shown animus towards immigrants,” Jonnson continued.

“He has shown a great deal of animus towards working people across the city of Chicago, and it is my responsibility, and is my joy, to protect all residents of this beloved city,” he said, still avoiding Blackwell’s actual question.

Blackwell played a clip of r Tom Homan saying he was requesting Democrat-controlled police departments to let Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents locate criminal illegals.

“I don’t want them to be immigration officers,” Homan said of police departments in the clip Blackwell played.

“I want them, when they arrest an illegal alien for a serious crime, I’m just asking them to tell us where to find them. I don’t want you to hold a minute more. You have to hold them under your charges. But just work with us and take these public safety threats, not only off the streets but on the country.”

Blackwell then asked Jonhson, “So let me, let me ask you specifically, if you have someone in CPD who takes custody of someone who fits that scenario, that profile, accused of a violent crime in the country illegally, does local law allow you to inform ICE? And will you do that?”

However, Johnson failed to answer the question and instead went off with liberal talking poiints.

“Here’s what the local law does. First of all, you know, as a sanctuary city. You know, this ordinance was birthed by the first black mayor in the history of Chicago, Mayor Harry Washington,’ Jonhson said.

“He understood during the Reagan administration, as foreign policies disrupted Central and South America, he made it very clear that the city of Chicago will serve as refuge for people around the globe.”

:And so there’s a strong black liberation presentation that comes out of the city of Chicago as it relates to being a sanctuary city,” Johnson exclaimed.

“Look, the law is very clear. Local police officers are not federal agents. That is clear. This so-called border czar seems to be getting educated more and more throughout you know, you know his, I guess, his speaking tour.”

“It’s unfortunate, though, that there is an abominable ignorance that exists within the Trump administration that continues to displace and cause chaos,” Johnson added.

When Johnson was asked about his city’s sanctuary ordinances prevent the police from informing ICE about wheeabouts of illegal aliens, he fell back on to the narrative that t “the police are not immigration agents” w

Johnson also made the false claim that Jesus of Nazareth was a “refugee”.”

“There are people all across this country who are going to celebrate this holiday season about the birth of Jesus Christ who fleed [sic] political and religious oppression as a refugee, as an asylum seeker,” Johnson claimed.

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