Chicago and Illinois File Lawsuit to Halt Trump's Guard Deployment Post-Portland Decision - Internewscast Journal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Officials from Illinois and Oregon argue that military intervention is unnecessary, suggesting that federal presence only exacerbates tensions.
52% : "Aren't defendants simply circumventing my order?" she said.
50% : White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson confirmed in a weekend statement that Trump authorized using Illinois National Guard members, citing what she called "ongoing violent riots and lawlessness" that local leaders have not quelled.
50% : Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday that he signed an executive order barring federal immigration agents and others from using city-owned property, such as parking lots, garages and vacant lots, as staging areas for enforcement operations.
50% : In Portland, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut on Sunday granted a temporary restraining order sought by Oregon and California barring the deployment of Guard troops to Oregon from any state and the District of Columbia. Immergut, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, seemed incredulous that the president moved to send National Guard troops to Oregon from neighboring California and then from Texas on Sunday, just hours after she had ruled against it the first time.
50% : In recent weeks, the nightly protests typically drew a couple dozen people -- until Trump ordered the National Guard.
50% : Since starting his second term, Trump has sent or talked about sending troops to 10 cities, including Baltimore; Memphis, Tennessee; the District of Columbia; New Orleans; and the California cities of Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
45% : Mayor Katrina Thompson, citing safety and other factors, said she was limiting protests to 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The ACLU of Illinois on Monday sued Trump, Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Border Patrol and national and local leaders at several agencies, accusing them of unleashing a campaign of violence and intimidation against peaceful protesters and journalists during weeks of demonstrations outside that facility.
44% : He said it's difficult to "toe the line" between not helping federal immigration agents and maintaining public safety.
38% : A federal judge in September said the administration "willfully" broke federal law by deploying guard troops to Los Angeles over protests about immigration raids. ___ Associated Press reporters Sophia Tareen in Chicago, Todd Richmond in Madison, Wisconsin, and Ed White in Detroit contributed to this story.
37% : The legal action in Chicago heightened the situation following a violent weekend, where a woman was reportedly shot by a federal agent after Border Patrol vehicles were surrounded and hit by other vehicles.

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