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Judge Temporarily Halts Trump’s National Guard Deployment to Illinois

The judge questioned the evidence of unrest that the administration cited to justify sending troops.

Overview

  • About 500 Guard members — roughly 200 from Texas and 300 from Illinois — were mobilized for a 60-day mission to protect ICE facilities and other federal sites, staging at an Army Reserve center in Elwood near Chicago.
  • U.S. District Judge April Perry issued a temporary order blocking the deployment in Illinois after the state and the city of Chicago sued, arguing the move is unlawful and unnecessary.
  • U.S. Northern Command said an element of the Texas contingent had begun work in the Chicago area before the ruling, with the mission described as securing federal personnel and property.
  • Parallel legal battles continue over Portland, where a federal judge blocked a similar Guard deployment and a 9th Circuit panel heard the government’s appeal as 24 Democratic-led states filed a supporting brief for Oregon and California.
  • President Donald Trump defended the deployments, threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, and called for jailing Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson, while local officials and reports describe mostly small, peaceful protests.