By Illinois Review
The City of Chicago and Democratic National Committee officials are expecting mass protests next week during the convention, as more than 150 groups have formed a nationwide coalition to march down city streets leading to the United Center – the site where delegates are expected to officially nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as their Democratic nominee for president.
The nationwide coalition expected to march in Chicago next week includes groups like Black Lives Matter Chicago, Freedom Socialist Party, Denver Communists, Palestinian Assembly for Liberation, Democratic Socialists of America, Milwaukee for Yemen and National Students for Justice in Palestine. The groups represent the new voice of the Democratic party, and have left traditional Democrats who remain pro-police, pro-Israel, pro-law and order and pro-America, feeling alienated and marginalized.
Many of the groups marching as part of the coalition are also against the deportation of illegal immigrants. And it’s been reported that Chicago – a sanctuary city – has seen an 11,000 percent increase in arrests of Venezuelan migrants since President Joe Biden opened up our southern border. It’s estimated that over 20,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago in the last year, costing more than $400 million – with 25 buses arriving each day dropping off an average of 1,250 migrants around the city and various surrounding communities.
It’s estimated that over 13 million illegals have crossed into the U.S. from our southern border since the Biden-Harris administration took over in 2020 – placing an enormous burden and financial strain on communities left to figure out how to address the migrant crisis that’s taking over their towns and villages. In March of 2021, Biden made Harris the “border czar” tasked with addressing the migrant crisis. Harris welcomed the new assignment, saying at the time, “Needless to say, the work will not be easy, but it is important work.”
Many of the groups expected to march during the DNC next week are demanding that the Biden-Harris regime call on Israel for an immediate ceasefire and for the U.S. military to end sending aid to Israel. On the coalition’s website, it reads in bold letters, “The march on the DNC will be a march for Palestine!”
In late July, during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the U.S. Congress, nearly 100 Democratic lawmakers boycotted his appearance as one of America’s strongest allies defended the war in Gaza just blocks from Union Station in Washington where pro-Palastenian protesters burned the American flag, destroyed property and spray painted the words, “F**k America,” “Hamas is Coming” and “Kill them all” on monuments near the U.S. Capitol.
The scenes, which went viral on social media, represent an elevation of anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric less than a month before the DNC in Chicago, where delegates are expected to anoint Harris – who skipped Netanyahu’s speech last month, as their nominee for president after Joe Biden was forced out of the campaign by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
Law enforcement officials insist that they are prepared for the marches and are calling on the groups to march peacefully. The DNC will be in Chicago August 19-22.
