Illinois sued the Trump administration on Monday to block National Guard troops from deploying in Chicago amid a sweeping illegal immigration crackdown.
“Defendants’ deployment of federalized troops to Illinois is patently unlawful,” the suit which includes President Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and US Army Secretary Daniel Driscol claims in part.
The suit is seeking emergency injunctive relief to stop the “illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional federalization of members of the National Guard of the United States, including both the Illinois and Texas National Guard.”
The lawsuit filing comes 48 hours after Trump authorized the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard members to Chicago to help “protect federal officers and assets,” mirroring a strategy implemented during June’s anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles which grew into violent riots.
On Saturday in Chicago, federal immigration agents were surrounded and menaced by a raging mob of ICE protesters, who attacked and rammed their vehicles before boxing them in, according to DHS.
The agents were on patrol around 15 miles from the anti-ICE protests that have roiled the Windy City suburb of Broadview, home to a processing center for the immigration agency.
The CPD came under fire after dispatcher audio appeared to reveal officers being ordered to stand down rather than answer a distress call put out by the federal agents under siege.
