Watch: Pritzker Shows Us Who He Really Is in Response to Important Question on ICE Actions in Chicago

Things have been pretty intense in Chicago in recent weeks, as federal immigration enforcement agents have ramped up efforts to track down and detain criminal illegal immigrants in the Windy City amid doxxing and violence from far-left wacktivists.

Along with that has been the escalating war of words, which has included lawsuits, between Democrat city and state "leaders" in Illinois and the Trump administration.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), of course, has been leading the anti-ICE messaging strategy among his fellow Democrats, going so far as to say he was exploring legal options to try and prosecute ICE agents for allegedly breaking the law, as we reported earlier.

"So we’re looking at all of the options at the local level with county state’s attorneys, with attorneys general to go after people [ICE agents] when they’re breaking Illinois law, when they’re breaking local law," Pritzker told MSNBC host and former Biden-Harris administration press secretary Jen Psaki in a Thursday interview.

But though the interview with Psaki saw Pritzker get thrown a lot of softballs, the one he did with Fox News's Bret Baier was quite different, with Baier pressing him on several fronts, including on the issue of violent crime, in particular, homicides. The governor was not happy when the Fox News anchor brought receipts to the table:

Baier: "Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities?"

Pritzker: "We're not in the top 30."

Baier: *shows him a map showing Chicago is number one*

Pritzker: "Look, you can pull statistics up but our murder rate has been cut in half." pic.twitter.com/1Sg2JbyeIR
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 23, 2025

In another segment, Pritzker told on himself a little bit, pretending that he wasn't fanning the flames of incendiary rhetoric that was leading to murder attempts on ICE agents, and declaring he knew exactly the types of wrongdoing they were allegedly committing.

And yet when Baier asked him if he'd be willing to spend a day with ICE agents to see what they actually do and have to go through, the prospective 2028 presidential candidate declined.

"I can see what they do on the streets of Chicago," Pritzker stated as he shook his head no.

Watch:

Pritzker: "ICE agents are literally racially profiling... Literally grabbing people and tackling them when they're U.S. citizens."

Baier: "Would you be willing to go on a ride-along with ICE in Chicago to get a better understanding of what they do?"

Pritzker: "No. I can see… pic.twitter.com/TsIWmwFN1V
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 23, 2025

In other words, he'd rather stay comfortably ensconced in his safe place and wallow in ignorance and distorted social media clips posted by leftist agitators rather than see for himself in person if what's being alleged about ICE is actually true. There's a word for that, and it rhymes with the name "Howard."

But then again, what else can we expect from a guy who has a 24-7 paid security detail and who literally boasted about how safe Chicago supposedly was the day after a particularly violent Labor Day weekend that saw 37 shootings occur over the three-day period, where 58 people were shot, with eight of the shootings being deadly?

Amazingly, Pritzker also went full Jekyll and Hyde, praising the man he has compared to Hitler for closing down the border, which he says helped cut down on some of the problems Illinois faced with the influx of illegal immigrants under the Biden-Harris administration.

"...since President Trump has taken office, we don't have the problem that existed before."

Even JB Pritzker admits Biden's border policies were disastrous and praises President Trump.

PRITZKER: "I asked President Biden...to deal with some of the problems at the border...and we weren't getting any help really...since President Trump has taken office, we don't have the… pic.twitter.com/gHE5EtB0Rz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2025

Thanking him on one hand for the help while slapping at him with the other. Come on, Illinois, you've got to do better than this in future election cycles. You've just got to.

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