Governor slams ‘Trump’s invasion’ as troops deployed in Illinois

JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, criticizes Donald Trump’s “invasion,” claiming that the president had ordered the deployment of an additional 400 National Guard members from Texas to Illinois, Oregon, and “other states.”

On X Sunday evening, he said, “I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate.” There is no reason why the president should enlist military forces without their knowledge, approval, or cooperation.

Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, responded by saying that he “fully authorized” Trump’s deployment of National Guard personnel to other states.

In a post on X, Abbott said, “You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or you can let Texas Guard do it.”

According to Abbott, the Texas National Guard “defends our country with pride.”

The conflict between the Democratic Party of Illinois and the Republican Party of Texas comes as immigration and US citizens in Chicago have recently experienced widespread arrests from federal immigration agents, causing protests.

Federal agents “rappelled from Black Hawk helicopters” last week as they stormed a five-story apartment complex, according to a report in NewsNation, which was invited to witness the operation.

Residents of the area and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, who conducted the survey, claimed zip-tied people included US citizens and children.

Agents allegedly broke through Rodrick Johnson’s door and tied him up, according to the US citizen who was briefly detained.

The 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times, “I asked if they had a warrant, and I requested a lawyer.” They “never brought one,” they claim.

After the state of Oregon filed a lawsuit against the move, a federal judge on Sunday temporarily obstructing the troops from traveling there.

In an effort to quell protests that have erupted as a result of the immigration raids, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have also used physical force, chemical weapons, and rubber bullets.

Meanwhile, a&nbsp, a federal judge abruptly halted a similar move by the Trump administration to send National Guard troops from California to Oregon’s northwestern state and Portland’s capital late on Sunday.

Oregon’s Attorney General, Dan Rayfield, had just announced that the states of California and Oregon would file a new joint legal challenge to what he called “the unlawful deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon.”

Following the announcement that Texas National Guard personnel were also being activated, the two West Coast states asked for a narrower order that would have restricted the sending of National Guard troops to Oregon. Instead, they requested that the order be narrowed down to include National Guard troops from any other state.

Oregon, in a statement describing the reasons for the new legal action on Sunday, said that “the president’s attempt to normalize the use of the US military in our American cities will absolutely not be a part of that effort.”