Despite Democratics opposition, 200 troops from Texas arrive in Illinois on Trump's orders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump -- who suggested last week that American cities be used as "training grounds" for US military forces -- exaggerated the scale of unrest in Los Angeles and crime in Washington to justify those deployments, and a judge suggested he did the same when it comes to Portland.
50% : " Trump over the weekend authorized the deployment of 700 National Guard troops to Chicago, sparking a lawsuit by Illinois state officials who accused him of using US troops "to punish his political enemies.
50% : Trump asserted that it is "war-ravaged" and riddled with violent crime.
50% : "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason," Trump said, adding that he would use it if "people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up." Read more: Trump says may invoke Insurrection Act to deploy more troops in US Trump administration calls US cities war zones as troops deployed Trump authorizes troops to Chicago as judge blocks Portland deployment
44% : Trump responded to that setback by openly mulling the use of the Insurrection Act -- which allows the president to deploy the military within the United States to suppress rebellion -- in order to send more troops into Democratic-led US cities.
35% : " Trump has similarly taken aim at Portland, which like Chicago has seen surges of federal agents as part of the president's mass deportation drive, prompting protests outside immigration processing facilities.

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