{"id":653,"date":"2025-10-09T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=653"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:26:14","slug":"texas-national-guard-arrives-in-illinois-as-gov-pritzker-calls-for-end-of-trump-administrations-authoritarian-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration’s ‘authoritarian march’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources<\/a> familiar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texas National Guard boarded a military plane on Monday afternoon in Texas, as state and city leaders in Illinois were holding a news conference asking them to stay away from Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday shared a\u00a0photo on social media\u00a0showing what he called the state’s “elite” National Guard boarding a plane, but he did not say where they were headed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Illinois will not let the Trump administration continue on their authoritarian march without resisting,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said. “We will use every lever at our disposal to stop this power grab because military troops should not be used against American communities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Texas National Guard members were video-recorded by ABC Chicago Station WLS on Tuesday at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, Illinois, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the military officials whom WLS recorded video of at the Army Reserve Center on Tuesday was two-star Maj. Gen. Niave Knell, the deputy commanding general of U.S. Army North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pritzker said at a news conference on Monday that over the weekend, he called on Abbott “to immediately withdraw his support of this decision” to send the Texas National Guard members to Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier Tuesday, Abbott\u00a0had replied\u00a0to Pritzker on social media, saying, “I fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a news conference on Tuesday morning, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he had not received no advance information on the whereabouts of the Texas National Guard troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have not heard directly, of course, from the president or his administration and my expectation is that, regardless of what this administration is doing, I\u2019m going to remain firm and committed to protecting the rights and the civility of our nation and will start right here in Chicago,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do know that much like what we\u2019ve seen in other parts of the country, there is a process that the National Guard goes through before they\u2019re actually released into the streets of Chicago or anywhere,” Johnson added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson said that what he does know is that the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago is “illegal, unconstitutional, it’s dangerous, it’s wrong.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The state of Illinois and city of Chicago filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block the federalization and deployment of the National Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundational principle separating the military from domestic affairs is “in peril” as Trump seeks to deploy the National Guard to\u00a0cities across the country, lawyers for Illinois and Chicago wrote in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me be clear, Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation’s cities,” Pritzker said during a news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To support his point, Pritzker played a video of an ICE raid conducted last week on an apartment complex in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, which he claimed was filmed by federal authorities with high-definition cameras for social media purposes. He said it was the same video that Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted on social media on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They brought Black Hawk military helicopters and more than 100 agents in full tactical gear,” Pritzker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, “In the dead of night and seemingly for the cameras, armed federal agents emerged from the Black Hawk helicopters, rappelling onto the roof of that apartment building.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a\u00a0Senate Judiciary Committee hearing\u00a0on Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked about the deployment of National Guard Troops to Chicago and how they would help improve safety in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m having a real struggle right now with the National Guard being deployed and masking the abject failure of leaders in the state and local level,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Bondi, referring to alleged excessive crime in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Are we masking an underlying problem that will come back the minute that we leave?” Tillis asked Bondi. “That\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about, not the protection of federal buildings and federal law enforcement, but almost a sense that they\u2019ve become an arm of local law enforcement. I don\u2019t consider that a best practice. It doesn\u2019t sound like you do, either.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Seeing what’s happening in Chicago, they need the National Guard. Our ICE members need the National Guard to protect the national buildings,” Bondi responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Chicago city officials have insisted there is no crime emergency in the city to justify the deployment of the National Guard.\u00a0Chicago police crime statistics\u00a0show that homicides in the city are down 28% this year compared to the first nine months of 2024, and the number of shooting incidents is down 35%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pritzker alleged the Trump administration is following a playbook to “cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act so that he can send military troops to our city,” Pritzker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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