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Trump Says Chicago Mayor, Illinois Governor Should Be Jailed as Guard Troops Arrive Near City

The remarks escalate a legal fight now headed to a Thursday court hearing.

Military personnel in uniform, with the Texas National Guard patch on, are seen at the U.S. Army Reserve Center, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Elwood, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
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People protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Illinois, on Oct. 3, 2025.

Overview

  • Texas National Guard troops began staging Tuesday at the Elwood Army Reserve center outside Chicago, with additional Illinois guardsmen federalized, according to Pentagon and media reports.
  • A federal judge in Chicago declined to issue an immediate restraining order, allowing limited Guard deployments to proceed while setting a Thursday hearing on Illinois and Chicago’s lawsuit.
  • U.S. military officials say the troops’ assignment is to protect federal personnel, property and immigration agents, not perform traditional law-enforcement duties.
  • President Trump’s post followed Chicago’s new “ICE Free Zone” order and weeks of stepped-up DHS operations under “Operation Midway Blitz,” which have drawn protests, arrests and a Border Patrol shooting of a woman on Oct. 4.
  • The White House has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if courts block deployments, even as another judge restrained a Portland deployment and a new poll shows most Americans oppose using troops without an external threat.