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

Texas politician applauds determination to deploy 400 National Guard members from his authorities to Illinois, Oregon and different states.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has slammed what helium called Donald Trump’s “invasion,” saying the United States president had ordered an further 400 National Guard members from Texas to beryllium deployed to Illinois, Oregon and “other states”.

“I telephone connected Governor Abbott to instantly retreat immoderate enactment for this determination and garbage to coordinate,” helium said connected X Sunday evening. “There is nary crushed a President should nonstop subject troops into a sovereign authorities without their knowledge, consent, oregon cooperation.”

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott responded by saying helium “fully authorised” Trump’s deployment of his state’s National Guard soldiers to different states.

“You tin either afloat enforce extortion for national employees oregon get retired of the mode and fto Texas Guard bash it,” Abbott said successful a station connected X.

The Texas National Guard “defend our state with pride”, Abbott added.

The speech betwixt the Republican person of Texas and the Democrat of Illinois comes arsenic immigrants and US citizens successful the state’s capital, Chicago, person faced wide arrests successful caller days from national migration agents, prompting protests.

In 1 incidental past week, national agents “rappelled from Black Hawk helicopters” arsenic they stormed a five-storey flat building, according to a study successful NewsNation, which was invited to observe the operation.

Residents and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which canvassed the area, said those who were zip-tied included children and US citizens.

Rodrick Johnson, a US national concisely detained, said agents broke done his doorway and placed him successful zip ties.

“I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” the 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They ne'er brought one.”

Complicating the contented further, a national justice connected Sunday temporarily blocked the troops from being sent to Oregon, aft that authorities challenged the determination successful court.

Demonstrators outcry to instrumentality enforcement officers during a standoff with ICE and national officers successful the Little Village neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois, connected Saturday [Jim Vondruska/Reuters]

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents person besides utilized carnal force, chemic munitions and rubber bullets to effort to quash protests that person emerged successful effect to the migration raids.

Meanwhile, a federal justice temporarily blocked a akin determination from the Trump medication to deploy National Guard troops from California to the northwestern authorities of Oregon, and its capital, Portland, precocious connected Sunday.

Oregon’s Attorney General Dan Rayfield had announced soon beforehand that the states of Oregon and California were launching the caller associated ineligible situation to what helium called “the unlawful deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon”.

The 2 West Coast states had primitively requested a narrower bid that would person blocked lone California National Guard troops from being sent to Oregon, but asked for the bid to beryllium expanded to National Guard troops being sent from immoderate different authorities to Oregon, aft the quality that Texas National Guard unit were besides being activated.

Describing the reasons for the caller ineligible enactment connected Sunday, Rayfield said Oregon “will perfectly not beryllium a enactment to the president’s effort to normalise the usage of the United States subject successful our American cities”.

Last week, Trump told a gathering of US subject generals that helium expects the US subject to assistance respond to the “enemy from wrong … earlier it gets retired of control.”