{"id":19569,"date":"2025-09-30T09:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=19569"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:35:31","slug":"bailey-says-pritzker-complete-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/19569-bailey-says-pritzker-complete-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Says Pritzker &#8220;Complete Incompetence, Refusal to Protect Communities&#8221; is Why Troops Being Sent to Protect ICE Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey says troops being sent to protect ICE agents in Chicago is further evidence of JB Pritzker\u2019s complete incompetence and refusal to do the most basic job a Governor is supposed to do \u2013 protect our communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security is looking to send 100 troops to protect ICE agents in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a shame that the federal government has to send the military into Chicago just to protect ICE officers. This is what failed leadership looks like.<\/p>\n<p>If Governor JB Pritzker would cooperate with federal officials instead of making ICE the enemy, and if Mayor Brandon Johnson would put more officers on the street instead of leaving families defenseless, we wouldn\u2019t be here today. Illinois families deserve better. They deserve leaders who stand with law-abiding citizens, not criminals. They deserve leaders who enforce our laws and keep our streets safe. If Pritzker and Johnson did their jobs, the military would never have to step in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey says troops being sent to protect ICE agents in Chicago is further evidence of JB Pritzker\u2019s complete incompetence and refusal to do the most basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bailey Says Pritzker &quot;Complete Incompetence, Refusal to Protect Communities&quot; 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