President Trump again singled out Chicago while announcing he was deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Monday.

Chicago's Mayor Johnson opposes Trump's plan to send National Guard to Chicago, citing progress in reducing crime.

In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.

Crouched down, Thaliya Martinez fidgeted with her camera lens, preparing for a day of photographing aircraft at Chicago’s annual Air & Water Show. Martinez, a freelance photographer and member of the Army National Guard, said she aspires to be a pilot one day.

The president asserted that his takeover of DC police and use of troops to battle crime in Washington could potentially be applied to cities like Chicago. But Gov. JB Pritzker emphatically dismissed Trump's warning,

The presence of National Guard troops in Washington, DC, is expected to expand Wednesday evening, according to a White House official, as President Donald Trump’s takeover of the city’s law enforcement continues to take shape.

National Guard troops called on to active-duty by President Donald Trump arrived on the footsteps of the Washington Monument on Tuesday.

“He has absolutely no right and no legal ability to send troops into the city of Chicago,” Pritzker told reporters, citing a law already on the books that says “the federal government does not have a right to send soldiers into American cities.” Trump, Pritzker noted, did it to Los Angeles, and the case is now in court.