Overview

• About 200 Texas Guard members and roughly 300 from Illinois are mobilized on 60‑day orders to protect federal personnel and property, with staging at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood.
• The Pentagon says the Texas contingent operates under presidential command and can conduct crowd control and detain individuals until local police arrive, but cannot make arrests.
• Illinois and Chicago have sued to block the deployment, and courts in other jurisdictions have already constrained similar operations, including a ruling that halted a Portland plan.
• Protests continued in Chicago, with hundreds marching downtown, while Broadview saw a smaller, largely orderly demonstration under curfew as local officials braced for potential Guard presence at the ICE facility.
• President Trump escalated rhetoric by calling for jailing Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor J.B. Pritzker, as state and city leaders denounced the deployment as unnecessary militarization.