Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois despite lawsuit over Trump crackdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Throughout the back-and-forth with Illinois leaders, Trump administration officials have framed their unprecedented, heavily militarized presence in the state as a response to an alleged law-and-order crisis and out-of-control crime, pointing to regular protests around an ICE facility outside of Chicago and alleged violent threats against federal agents.
51% : Chicago Mayor Johnson signed an executive order Monday 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% : " A federal court last week temporarily paused a similar attempted deployment of in-and out-of-state Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, but the judge in the Illinois case declined to take such a step, scheduling a hearing in the suit for Thursday.
50% : "Crime is out of control in Texas," Newsom wrote on X. "Texas' homicide rate is 39% higher than California.
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.
38% : " A military official told The New York Times that 200 Texas troops are expected to deploy to the Chicago area on Wednesday, while 300 Illinois National Guard troops the Trump administration has attempted to federalize over the objections of state officials are also preparing to deploy.
34% : Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, has accused the president of using authoritarian tactics to wield control over states and cities governed by his political rivals.
34% : A federal judge in September said the administration "willfully" broke federal law by deploying guard troops to Los Angeles over protests about immigration raids.
22% : The fierce opposition to troops being sent to Chicago comes as the federal court recently blocked the Trump administration from using National Guard troops for a similar mission in Portland Hundreds of Texas National Guard troops have arrived in Illinois as part of the Trump administration's long-threatened plan to send military troops into Chicago, despite a lawsuit and vigorous opposition to the move from city and state leaders.

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