of military deployment from the federal government are ratcheting up following the arrest of 5 protesters outside an ICE facility in suburban Broadview.

The Trump administration now reportedly plans to send around 100 military troops to as the administration claims protect immigration agents.

The president doubled down on his desire to unleash military, strengthen American cities yesterday.

>> San Francisco, Chicago.

New York, Los Angeles.

It's very unsafe places.

And we're going to straighten that one by one.

And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.

That's a word war from within Joe.

Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for.

Our military.

>> Governor JB Pritzker panned President Trump's comments calling them appalling.

Here's the governor earlier this week.

>> The MAGA Republicans supported invasion of Portland.

Chicago.

La.

And Washington, D.C., is not making us any safer.

Instead, it is putting our people in danger that's not preventing crime.

As Donald Trump claims that's threatening public safety.

>> Local businessman and former political candidate including runs for mayor of Chicago.

Willie Wilson is in support of a harsher crackdown on crime and says he would welcome National Guard troops into the city.

And Willie Wilson joins us now.

Welcome back.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Have so.

So so far, Los Angeles, DC, Memphis, they've all seen military deployments.

We heard the president mentioning addressing the issue of violent crime.

Pritzker says the Trump administration wants to deploy 100 troops to Chicago.

We know that the Oregon National Guard is also working to comply with the president's call for 200 troops in Portland.

Other spots in the country are under consideration.

New Orleans as well as in Missouri.

How would you envision a National Guard operation playing out in Chicago?

>> Well, anything that have to say live because of a and turns a lie because of fact that I assigned to about.

And many also a lot of people lose a kid.

Do people do get caught?

They've been going on for you.

You nobody get caught.

No.

As saying to Kim, about 2 people who lost a loved one.

And then we go.

We lose a loved one.

Have you lie?

Go down into the great with that loved one.

for people like the governor and then Mia, say they don't want Magic guard and to city.

Well, they seem to have most us, too.

But people got away.

Then put the ones who lost loved ones.

Do you think deployment of the National Guard would somehow assist in catching the people who commit those crimes?

What happened Washington, D.C.?

>> I was a windy yesterday.

notify.

I'm saying to me that going on now.

>> You gotta They 5000 to 2000 people.

Police officers short.

Why not take advantage of?

Does he have president got a great food mix together top work pain time together so we stop crime.

I think that that would help because proven to help and to DC and these other Why fight it?

This is our turn pain that don't look, fail as if they fail.

don't want nobody to come in here and you have get situation right.

>> So New York Times analyzed how National Guard activity in DC was changing local policing there and they find found the crime did fall significantly.

finding that more than 50% of arrests accounted for drug and gun offenses, including those who had a license to carry weapons in surrounding states but did not possess a DC permit traffic and other minor violations accounted for 18%, violent or property crimes made up 9% of cases that federal agents were involved in.

And so there's lowering some of these crimes.

But there's also Sarah difference between, of course, on preventing crime, right and stopping it from happening and solving murder cases in like some of ones that that you reference?

>> Well, I think in the bow.

National Guard.

You need program and play helping people that.

Creigh School, you know, haven't the senior citizen get food.

They too scared to come out home.

You know.

>> So you talk about a lot of the social issues that that many advocates talk about that need fixing.

We're working on that would also lend itself to lowering violence and crime yet.

But you have to hold people accountable.

>> You cannot have your.

So over here without holding people accountable.

Here.

that is problem right there.

So but I think problem right here it this year.

Okay, Senate to do I want to talk about him and to right.

Okay.

I know the whys in DC.

He stopped me from testify on a subject that point right?

He took me back to Jim Crow days right?

And my my okay.

He did not want citizens Chicago to know that I was dead to testify and top him foam containers too.

Not take 10 support.

Community like man committed while most of the crimes that.

Yeah, Latina community there as well and it and well into why community.

But he stopped me from doing that.

And it was How did how did that, how preventing you from testifying?

We did get a statement from Senator Durbin, which here in a minute.

But how did that take you back to Jim Crow days, sir?

>> Well, you know, don't own a one people down south.

They stop you.

You can go in certain places.

They stopped it right and big stop.

>> Biden prevented from traveling testify at that hearing.

You statement that we did receive from Senator Durbin reads, quote, Willie Wilson was scheduled as a witness for the majority decision to invite all the majority witnesses and subsequently to condense the panels and drop Wilson from the hearing was ultimately made by Chairman Grassley and his staff.

But you say that it was not Chairman Grassley, that it was actually Senator Durbin.

Here's what it all meant.

Staff said that that was a long book.

>> And had a law on the books and had been about a run against a particular Senate is set on the committee.

That they could not testify.

That was All right.

so OK, fine.

But then at the what I call that, thank you, chairman.

And I well, I guess the reason why couldn't get on it because law he's a now.

It was not It There's curry us today.

He gave to Durbin because ask them to do so.

Okay.

>> I want to get back to the National Guard in crime in Chicago because we know from CPD data that violent crime in the city had been trending say for a spike during the pandemic of violence.

Prevention experts, the mayor attribute that drop in violence to interruption, measures pushed more resources like the ones that you mentioned, education, jobs and involved community policing approach.

Are you concerned that military troops who may not be with Chicago in the police community relations here, that they could come in and hurt any progress.

The city has already made?

>> No, I don't think so.

I don't think that's true at all.

I think the mayor of Milan arrests taking to Chicago to you in.

He point police off about schools and things that nature.

I think that from I happened with the next guy comes and to support what they If you can 20 people, 5 people getting killed.

That it's a plus the right.

The last would say is too, is that.

couple weeks and ago, 54 people got shot.

that killed.

And he's and crime going down.

we all feel it into the community.

>> And I think think was the school board that allowed schools to make the pulling off police officers from school.

But to the point of the National Guard, they don't have law enforcement training.

They don't have arrest authority.

Of course.

What do you say to the critics of this move like the mayor like the governor who think that the presence of federal agents is actually just stoking fear.

>> I think, look, you've got to some different and people lose their lives or we can.

You got to crack them different you continue live and we can't.

Chicago is smaller than New York City.

But more try.

And I don't buy at all.

You know?

>> You don't let the mayor and a governor moves someone and they famine.

If that was the case, why didn't they have 100 companies office on him?

And people have police office on him as well.

just help share that people in the community A&M R and I know this is an issue that is personal to you.

As you mentioned, losing your