Greg Abbott: “If anybody is shot, if anybody is attacked, I tell you what…”

“That really serves to highlight, I think, the threat that CBP and ICE are facing there in the city of Chicago, which is the reason why you're deploying your guard up there. So, John, you're spot on. First, I'll say this, and that is If anybody is shot, if anybody is attacked, I tell you what, Governor Pritzker and the local mayor there in Chicago, they are accomplices to those crimes. by stirring up this hate against ICE agents, against the federal government employees, against the National Guard.” (05:02–05:14)

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