Overview

• Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the Chicago Police Department from assisting in civil immigration enforcement, joint patrols, traffic stops, or checkpoint reviews and requiring federal agents to show agency and badge numbers without masks.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said DHS intends to add resources to ongoing ICE operations in Chicago and across Illinois, with a reported request for limited logistical support at Naval Station Great Lakes.
• Governor J.B. Pritzker said the state was not consulted, denounced any troop deployment as an “invasion,” threatened legal action, and argued the push is politically motivated.
• President Donald Trump called Chicago “by far the most dangerous city in the world,” cited weekend shooting tallies, and threatened to send troops to “restore order.”
• U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer ruled the June deployment of Marines and National Guard in Los Angeles illegal and said remaining forces must be released or confined to protecting federal buildings, creating a constraint the administration may contest.