As members of the Texas National Guard He boarded a plane On Monday, state and city leaders in Illinois were holding a press conference asking them to stay away from Chicago.
It was not clear immediately when the members of the guard would arrive in Chicago. The Governor of Texas, Abbott, shared on Monday a photo on the social networks that showed the “elite” of the State National Guard addressing a plane, but did not say where they were heading.
“Illinois will not allow the Trump administration to continue in its authoritarian march without resisting,” said Illinois governor JB Pritzker. “We will use each lever at our disposal to stop this taking of power because military troops should not be used against US communities.”
A security guard monitors the street outside an immigration and customs processing center (ICE) on Broadview, Illinois, on September 10, 2025.
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Earlier in the day, Abbott He had responded For Pritzker on social networks, saying: “I completely authorized the president to call 400 members of the Texas National Guard to guarantee the safety of federal officials.”
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit on Monday that sought to block the federalization and deployment of the National Guard.
The fundamental principle that separates the military from domestic affairs is “in danger”, since Trump seeks to deploy the National Guard for Cities from all over the country, the lawyers of Illinois and Chicago wrote in the lawsuit.
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, speaks at a press conference on October 6, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.
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“Let me be clear, Donald Trump is using the members of our service as political accessories and as pawns in their illegal effort to militarize the cities of our nation,” said Pritzker during a press conference.
To support his point, Pritzker played a video of an ice raid made last week in an apartments complex in the Chicago South Shore neighborhood, which according to him was filmed by federal authorities with high -definition cameras for social networks. He said it was the same video as the Secretary of the United States National Security Department, Kristi Noem, published on social networks on Saturday.
“Black Hawk military helicopters brought and more than 100 full tactical team agents,” Pritzker said.
He added: “On the night floor and apparently for the cameras, the armed federal agents emerged from the Black Hawk helicopters, rapting to the roof of that apartment building.”
The governor alleged that the Trump administration is following a play book to “cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mafia when shooting gas granules and tear gas boats.
Speaking to journalists at the Oval office on Monday afternoon, Trump said he still did not see the need to use the insurrection law, but “if he had to promulgate it, he would do so, if the people were killed and that the courts were retaining us, or the governors or the mayors retained us.”
