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Texas national guard troops arrived in Chicago amid President’s immigration crackdown, sparking legal battles and executive orders by mayor to limit Ice agents’ power.
National Guard Deployment in Chicago. (Image: Reuters)
Texas national guard troops reached Chicago as President Donald Trump-led administration’s continued to crackdown on immigrants.
According to The Guardian, Chicago has already seen a ramping up of immigration enforcement in the past few weeks, as well as increasingly violent altercations in the suburb of Broadview, where law enforcement has been filmed deploying tear gas and pepper gas against protestors.
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The presence of Texas national guard troops in Chicago on Tuesday came after US district judge April Perry declined to immediately block troops from entering the city.
The lawsuit was filed on Monday by Illinois attorney general Kwame Raoul to prevent Trump from enlisting the state’s national guard or sending in troops from other states such as Texas “immediately and permanently”.
Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday signed an executive order banning Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents from operating on city-owned properties, the third executive order attempting to limit the power of Ice agents in the city since Trump first signaled the deployment, The Guardian reported.
“City property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids,” said Johnson during the order’s signing. “The fact is, we cannot allow them to rampage throughout our city with no checks or balances. Nobody is above the law … if Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will.”
In response, the White House accused the mayor of “aiding and abetting criminal illegal immigrant killers, rapists, traffickers, and gang bangers”.
Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
October 08, 2025, 01:45 IST
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