Overview

• The president authorized up to 700 National Guard troops for Chicago, and a defense official said about 200 have arrived near the city.
• Chicago’s mayor signed a decree creating a “white zone” that bars federal immigration arrests on municipal property.
• Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker characterized the deployment as an authoritarian drift.
• Demonstrations have intensified outside ICE detention sites in recent days, including a Sept. 29 video showing agents chasing a man who escaped on a bicycle.
• A judge blocked a similar deployment to Portland over the weekend, and the White House has floated invoking the Insurrection Act as Chicago joins earlier targets in Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis.