Overview

• U.S. District Judge April Perry issued a two‑week injunction barring the federal government from placing the National Guard under federal control or using it in Illinois.
• Roughly 500 Guard members had been moved into the region—200 from Texas and 300 from Illinois—and some were seen patrolling an ICE facility in Broadview before the order.
• Illinois and Chicago sued to block the move, and Perry said the government showed no evidence of a “danger of rebellion,” while criticizing DHS actions as reflecting hostility toward Illinois officials.
• In court filings, the administration cited “actual and threatened violence” at the Broadview ICE site to justify Defense Department support, assertions the judge indicated were not credible.
• The power struggle is widening as a White House aide touted the president’s “plenary authority” on CNN and, in a separate state-approved deployment, National Guard patrols began in Memphis.