Gov. JB Pritzker says Texas National Guard expected to join troops from Illinois as deportations escalate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : " In addition to sending guard troops to Washington, Trump previously federalized guard troops in Los Angeles after sporadic anti-ICE protests in June, a move a federal judge said was illegal for domestic law enforcement.
61% : Trump has also announced he was deploying the guard to Memphis with the support of Tennessee GOP Gov. Bill Lee.
50% : " In his comments outside the White House, Trump criticized Judge Karin Immergut -- whom he appointed to the U.S. District Court in Oregon -- for blocking the deployment of Oregon National Guard troops in Portland.
50% : Trump did not at that time mention his plans to send California National Guard members to the city.
50% : Trump acknowledged appointing the judge but said, "I wasn't served well.
50% : All you have to do is look at that, look at the television," Trump said.
49% : The president called on guard members to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Protective Service and other federal government personnel "who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property, at locations where violent demonstrations against these functions are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations," the memo stated.
47% : " Speaking Sunday outside the White House as he prepared for a naval celebration in Norfolk, Virginia, Trump intimated that Pritzker was opposing efforts to bring in the National Guard to Illinois because it would anger opponents of immigration enforcement efforts, adding that protesters in Chicago and Portland are "paid people.
46% : " The developments capped a weekend of rapid-fire moves by the Trump administration as it escalated its immigration enforcement actions in Illinois and in Oregon, where Trump moved to send National Guard troops from California to evade a federal judge's temporary restraining order.
42% : Repeating as he often does basic Chicago police blotter statistics about murders and shootings and lauding his federalization of law enforcement in Washington, D.C., Trump criticized Pritzker, a major critic of the president, for saying "what a wonderful place" Chicago is when "they need help." "I believe the politicians are under threat, because there's no way somebody can say that things are wonderful in Chicago," Trump said.
40% : Hours later, Pritzker said Trump was trying to do much of the same by likely sending hundreds of Texas National Guard members to Illinois.
37% : He has also vowed to go to court to stop it, previously citing the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the military from conducting law enforcement activities on U.S. soil.
37% : Trump's moves in Illinois occurred while a federal judge who Trump appointed to the bench in Oregon on Saturday night blocked the president's mobilization of 200 Oregon National Guard members in Portland.
35% : On Sunday, Trump sought to circumvent the temporary restraining order in Oregon by federalizing 300 National Guard members from California for deployment in Portland -- a move California Gov. Gavin Newsom called a "breathtaking abuse of power" as he vowed legal action to try to stop it.
20% : "The Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words -- ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political opponents," Newsom said.

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