Richard is joined by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who said that his commitment to keeping Chicago "a welcoming city, a sanctuary city" is unchanged following the inauguration of Donald Trump as the country’s 47th president. In Trump’s first day in office, he signed a series of immigration- and border-related executive orders and has vowed to make sanctuary cities like Chicago the first targets of his administration's mass-deportation program.

"It's unfortunate that we have a president who is determined to divide this nation and to turn back to the hands of time, but the city of Chicago is strong," Johnson said. He maintained that Chicago law enforcement personnel “will not behave as federal agents” and called the Trump administration's early actions on border security a "head fake."

"This is to stoke fear and to incite division so that this administration can move forward with its agenda to eradicate" the Department of Education and put "a pause on" investigating civil rights violations and pursuing environmental justice, Johnson said. 

"We're going to show up for our immigrant community and our undocumented families to assure them that they do have rights in this city," the mayor told WCPT, adding that his administration has been working in concert with community-based organizations to give Chicago residents “all the information that they need to know their rights.” 

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