The president said on Friday that he's planning to send troops to Chicago as part of a crime crackdown in several US cities.

The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Donald Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States.

Chicago will likely be the next target in the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime, and city and state leaders are calling the possible deployment of National Guard troops an overreach of federal power.