The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit on Monday morning that sought to block the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of President Donald Trump.
“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States Army, particularly not simply because their leadership of the city or the State has fallen from the favor of a president,” the complaint said.
The fundamental principle that separates the military from domestic affairs is “in danger”, since President Trump seeks to deploy the National Guard in cities from all over the country, the lawyers of Illinois and Chicago wrote in a lawsuit.
The lawyers of the plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to issue an order that blocks the National Guard of any state of being federalized and deployed in Illinois, arguing that the State is being attacked because its “leadership has fallen from the favor of a president.”
“There is no insurrection in Illinois. There is no rebellion in Illinois. The federal government can enforce federal law in Illinois. The manufactured nature of the crisis is clear, “according to the 69 -page complaint.
Illinois and Chicago lawyers argue that Trump has not justified to assume the National Guard based on Federal Law, which allows federalization in response to a rebellion or invasion, and violates the POSSE Committus Law that prohibits the use of the military in the application of the National Law.
“The illegal deployment of the defendants of the Illinois National Guard, about the objection of the State, is similar to the illegal behavior that they have taken against other disadvantaged states and cities,” said the complaint.
Protesters face the police during a protest outside a processing and immigrant processing center, on October 3, 2025 on Broadview, Illinois.
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The lawsuit cites the publications of Trump’s social networks about the shipment of the militarized police to Chicago, including a publication in which he said: “I love deportations smell in the morning”, and their recent comments on the use of cities led by Democrat “as a training terrain for our military.”
The lawsuit occurs after a federal judge blocked Trump to send National Guard troops to Oregon, where protesters have gathered in an area of a block surrounding the United States immigration and customs compliance building in Portland.
In the ruling issued on Saturday, the American district judge Karin Immunicipal granted a temporary restriction order requested by California and Oregon.
“This country has a long -standing and fundamental resistance tradition to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion in civil affairs,” Immingut wrote.
“This historical tradition is reduced to a simple proposal: this is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law,” said the judge.
Immergut issued the ruling per day after Trump authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard of Illinois to Chicago to protect federal officers and federal assets in the city.
The tear gas fills the air after it was used by federal agents of application of the law that were being faced by members and community activists for, according to the reports, shoot a woman in the neighborhood of Brighton Park on October 4, 2025 on Broadview, Illinois.
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Trump has described that both Portland and Chicago are invaded by violence and disturbances. It has characterized both cities as “war zones.”
But the governors of Oregon and Chicago have responded that Trump has greatly exaggerated violence in those cities to justify their actions.
Amid the growing tensions in Chicago on the repression of immigration of the Trump administration, customs agents and the Trump border patrol shot on Saturday and wounded a woman who alleged that she was part of a convoy of protesters who rammed her vehicles during an “ambush.”
The secretary of the National Security Department, Kristi Noem, said that the border patrol agents opened fire against the woman in self -defense, claiming that she was armed with a semi -automatic weapon and driving one of the three vehicles that “cornered” and rammed the vehicles of the CBP agents.
In a second incident in Chicago on Saturday, a man was arrested after he allegedly rammed a CBP vehicle in an attempt to get him out of the road, according to the DHS.
A federal agent of application of the law confronts the protesters of the turret of a armored vehicle during a protest outside a processing and detention center of immigrants on October 3, 2025, on Broadview, Illinois.
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Trump lit a war of words with the leaders of Illinois and Chicago in early September when he suggested sending the National Guard to the Windy city, saying in a publication on social networks: “Chicago is about to discover why the war department is called.”
In the publication, Trump added: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”, a wink often quoted “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” of the war film “Apocalypse Now”.
Initially, Trump insisted that he was waiting for Chicago officials to ask for the help of the federal government before sending to the National Guard.
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, has made it clear at a September press conference that would not make such request, telling journalists: “When did we become a country where it is okay that the president of the United States insists on national television that a state should call it to beg for something, especially something we don’t want?”
