Overview

• U.S. Northern Command says about 500 troops—roughly 200 from Texas and 300 from Illinois—are mobilized for at least 60 days to protect ICE personnel and federal property, with tasks including security perimeters, crowd control and de‑escalation.
• Troops are staged at the Elwood Army Reserve Center southwest of Chicago, where fencing and temporary housing were installed, and an element of the Texas contingent began protecting federal sites on Wednesday, according to a Northern Command spokesperson.
• U.S. District Judge April Perry holds a hearing today on Illinois and Chicago’s request for a temporary restraining order, while a Ninth Circuit panel is set to consider the administration’s bid to lift an Oregon order that blocked deployments in Portland.
• President Donald Trump called for jailing Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker over their opposition and has said he may invoke the Insurrection Act if courts or local officials thwart deployments.
• Demonstrations near ICE facilities and in downtown Chicago continued this week and were largely limited in size, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll found most Americans oppose deploying troops in cities without an external threat.