Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago ordered local police officers not to aid the federal crackdown, ramping up the tensions between the White House and state and local officials.

The plans involve sending in hundreds of homeland security officers and using a naval base as a staging area.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday signed an executive order that demands President Donald Trump end "his threats to deploy the National Guard" to his city.

Mayor Brandon Johnson says order aims to protect residents from ‘threats and actions of out-of-control administration’.

The executive order affirms that Chicago police officers will not collaborate with the National Guard or ICE agents.

The order is the latest chapter in an escalating feud between the White House and Illinois state officials over violent crime and immigration.

Johnson told city departments to guard the constitutional rights of Chicago residents amid the ‘possibility of National Guard deployment’.

Brandon Johnson’s order directs city police not to collaborate with federal agents in immigration enforcement

Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order to counter plans to send federal agents into the city. Key US politics stories from Saturday 30 August at a glance

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson laid out how the nation's third-largest city will respond if President Trump deploys the National Guard.

Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago has rejected the Trump administration’s plans to send troops or militarized federal agents to his city for immigration enforcement, and ordered…

Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago ordered local police officers not to aid the federal crackdown, ramping up the tensions between the White House and state and local officials.

Donald Trump will Soldaten in die Stadt schicken, doch Bürgermeister Johnson und Gouverneur Pritzker fordern den US-Präsidenten heraus.

Donald Trump will Soldaten in die Stadt schicken, doch Bürgermeister Johnson und Gouverneur Pritzker fordern den US-Präsidenten heraus.