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The Mary Sue
Sanchari Ghosh

‘We need this kind of push back’: People show support for Chicago mayor as he speaks against the use of ‘illegal alien’ term

Chicago has been one of those cities that has been in constant conflict with Donald Trump since he began his second term this year. For the last few months, the city’s leaders, including Mayor Brandon Johnson, have stood firm against Trump’s repeated attempts to send in the National Guard to gain more control over the city.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is making it clear once again that President Donald Trump will not be able to dictate how the city works. In a clip that is currently going viral on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Johnson confronts an interviewer who referred to undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens,” a derogatory term often used by the President and his Republican allies to demean them. 

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