WATCH: Pritzker vows to fight Trump over migrant ‘sanctuary’ policies | Illinois

(The Center Square) – A Republican Illinois state legislator says President Donald Trump has reduced the state’s Democrats to a “puddle of tears.”

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Friday blasted the Trump administration, vowing to fight a recent lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Justice filed against the state and Chicago over the state’s migrant sanctuary policies.

“In Illinois, we have grit, we are tough, we are strong and Donald Trump has no idea what he’s up against when he attacks Illinois,” Pritzker said at an unrelated event Friday.

In the first two weeks of being in office, Trump began an independent audit of federal spending, ended federal DEI policies and took actions on immigration, all things House Speaker Emannuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, criticized on the House floor Wednesday.

“What’s coming out of Washington D.C. can be summed up in one word: fascism,” Welch said.

State Rep. Chris Miller, R-Oakland, said Democrats continue to try and distract from what he said were their failed policies.

“They don’t want the people of Illinois talking about safety and security, quality education, economic opportunity, the inflation rate that they’ve all caused through bad public policy,” Miller told The Center Square. “They want to try to defer, deflect, pivot, get you to talk about anything other than the facts.”

Miller said it’s the “radical left” that are the real fascists.

State Rep. Blaine Wilhour, R-Beecher City, said it’s been a sight to behold watching Democrats in Illinois reacting.

“They’ve been reduced to a puddle of tears in there, crying about all of these great executive orders that President Trump [has] done,” Wilhour told The Center Square. “These are things that he ran on. He’s delivering promises.”