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Chicago and Illinois sue to stop Trump's National Guard deployment plan after Portland ruling
New York Amsterdam News
|October 09, 2025
Illinois leaders went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to Chicago, escalating a clash between Democratic-led states and the Republican administration during an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the nation's third-largest city.
Demonstrators in Chicago protest Trump administration using ICE to wage deportation operations in area targeting Black and Latino communities. (Paul Goyette/Wikimedia Commons)
(Paul Goyette/Wikimedia Commons)
The legal challenge came hours after a judge blocked the Guard's deployment in Portland, Oregon.
The lawsuit in Chicago also raised the stakes after a violent weekend: Authorities said a woman was shot by a federal agent when Border Patrol vehicles were boxed in and struck by other vehicles. The city's police superintendent rejected suggestions that his officers were on the government's side in volatile situations like that one.
The Trump administration has portrayed the cities as war-ravaged and lawless amid its crackdown on illegal immigration. Officials in Illinois and Oregon say that military intervention isn't needed and federal involvement is inflaming the situation.
The lawsuit alleges that "these advances in President Trump's long-declared 'War' on Chicago and Illinois are unlawful and dangerous." Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said a court hearing was scheduled for Thursday.
"Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities," Pritzker, a Democrat, said.
Governor: Federal wave is an 'invasion'
Pritzker said some 300 of the state's National Guard troops were to be federalized and deployed to Chicago, along with 400 others from Texas.
Pritzker said the potential deployment amounted to "Trump's invasion," and he called on Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to block it. Abbott pushed back and said the crackdown was needed to protect federal workers who are in the city as part of the president's increased immigration enforcement.
This story is from the October 09, 2025 edition of New York Amsterdam News.
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