Overview

• The White House said President Trump approved deploying 300 National Guard members to Chicago to protect federal employees and property, according to deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson.
• The decision follows intensified protests outside ICE facilities and a DHS-reported incident in which federal agents shot and wounded an armed woman during an immigration raid.
• DHS spokesperson Trisha McLafflin said the woman later reached a hospital on her own and asserted that Chicago police refused to assist federal agents.
• The deployment highlights an escalating dispute with Illinois leadership after Trump castigated Governor J.B. Pritzker over public order in Chicago.
• Legal challenges are likely after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked a separate plan to send 200 Guard troops to Portland on constitutional grounds.