{"id":210067,"date":"2025-10-08T21:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210067\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:44:14","slug":"no-national-guard-troops-on-chicago-area-streets-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210067\/","title":{"rendered":"No National Guard troops on Chicago-area streets yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The governor of Illinois said Wednesday he\u2019s still in the dark about where the Trump administration will send National Guard troops who have reported to an Army training site<\/a> southwest of Chicago where extra fencing and tarps have gone up to block the public\u2019s view.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, sent barbs from Washington, saying on social media that Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago\u2019s mayor, both Democrats, \u201cshould be in jail\u201d for failing to protect federal agents during immigration enforcement crackdowns.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s threats to send troops to Illinois were fulfilled with the arrival this week of Texas National Guard members at a U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood. Their exact role has not yet been publicly disclosed, though the president, contrary to statistics, has repeatedly claimed big cities run by Democrats are overwhelmed with crime. An immigration enforcement building outside Chicago has also been the site of clashes<\/a> between federal agents and protesters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government has not communicated with us in any way about their troop movements,\u201d Pritzker told reporters. \u201cI can\u2019t believe I have to say \u2018troop movements\u2019 in an American city, but that is what we\u2019re talking about here.\u201d<\/p>\n

A judge will have a role<\/a> in determining how many boots are on the streets: There\u2019s a court hearing Thursday on a request by Illinois and Chicago to declare the Guard deployment illegal. Elsewhere, an appeals court has scheduled a hearing the same day over the government\u2019s desire to send the Guard to Portland, Oregon. A judge blocked that effort over the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in Memphis, Tennessee, the Guard could arrive by Friday, though the number of troops is unclear. Republican Gov. Bill Lee has welcomed it, saying they could assist police.<\/p>\n

The nearly 150-year-old Posse Comitatus Act<\/a> limits the military\u2019s role in enforcing domestic laws. However, Trump has said he would be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows a president to dispatch active duty military in states that are unable to put down an insurrection or are defying federal law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about authoritarianism. It\u2019s about stoking fear,\u201d Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said. \u201cIt\u2019s about breaking the constitution that would give him that much more control over our American cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about Trump\u2019s wish to jail him, Pritzker in downtown Chicago extended his arms and told MSNBC: \u201cIf you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later Wednesday, a judge signaled that she planned to restrict federal agents from using certain crowd control tactics, such as tear gas, against peaceful protesters and journalists who have regularly gathered at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said a detailed decision would likely come Thursday.<\/p>\n

In Portland, months of nightly protests at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility continued Tuesday night. In June, police declared a riot, and there have been smaller clashes since then.<\/p>\n

Kristi Noem, head of the Department of Homeland Security, said on Fox News that her agency would send \u201cfour times the amount of federal officers\u201d if the city did not boost security at the ICE building and take other safety measures.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press reporters Laura Bargfeld in Elwood, Illinois, and Ed White in Detroit contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The governor of Illinois said Wednesday he\u2019s still in the dark about where the Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,47105,18361,2356,157,12,793,5630,5629,790,67877,4801,1576,3,3831,2232,111,3775,120119,2219,1022,2222,1059,6148,795,21,792,19,22,20,25,24,800],"class_list":["post-210067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bill-lee","tag-brandon-johnson","tag-california","tag-chicago","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-immigration","tag-j-b-pritzker","tag-kristi-noem","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-politics","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-sara-ellis","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}