{"id":2863,"date":"2025-10-09T00:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:04:43","slug":"just-in-national-guard-arrives-in-illinois-after-governor-declares-war-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2863","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: National Guard Arrives In Illinois After Governor \u2018Declares War\u2019 On Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around 200 troops with the Texas National Guard arrived in Illinois on Tuesday in order to protect federal property and personnel from repeated assaults and violent protests outside facilities that have plagued the city and surrounding suburbs for months, the Pentagon confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Pentagon official confirmed to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-national-guard-deploys-200-troops-illinois-federal-protection-mission-amid-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday that 200 personnel had been deployed to Illinois for an additional 60-day period. Troops arrived in Illinois \u201cin support of the Federal Protection Mission to protect federal functions, personnel, and property,\u201d the Pentagon said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deployment comes after several arrests have been made outside a facility in the community of Broadview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Broadview facility is one of many that has suffered repeat attacks from far-left mobs. Several Democrat candidates for an open House seat in Chicago, including Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss and the progressive-aligned Kat Abughazaleh, have filmed themselves committing felonies by blocking federal vehicles and impeding agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other rioters have clashed with agents, pelted rocks at vehicles and slashed tires in near daily disturbances at the facility. Agents have repeatedly attempted to control the crowd with pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets, though they have largely been outnumbered by the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read : <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=133\">Hunter Biden Facing New Accusation After Presidential Pardon<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation escalated significantly on Saturday when upwards of 10 vehicles intentionally rammed and trapped federal agents not far from the Broadview facility. At least one rioter was armed, prompting agents to fire shots in self-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary\u00a0Kristi Noem announced\u00a0on Saturday that additional special operations personnel would be deployed to Illinois after the ramming attack, which was one of two similar incidents that took place in the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe elite Texas National Guard are on the ground and ready to go,\u201d Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced in an X post on Tuesday. \u201cThey are putting America first by ensuring that the federal government can safely enforce federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The elite Texas National Guard. <br><br>Ever ready. <br><br>Deploying now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7lXe7Wpmue\">pic.twitter.com\/7lXe7Wpmue<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1975363505248207099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson reiterated Tuesday that he believes Trump\u2019s order is \u201cillegal, unconstitutional, dangerous and wrong.\u201d In a controversial order issued Monday, Johnson claimed he had the authority to create \u201cICE-free zones\u201d in Chicago and prohibit federal agents from making arrests, setting up a likely showdown with the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration must end the war on Chicago,\u201d Johnson said during a news conference Monday. \u201cThe Trump administration must end this war against Americans. The Trump administration must end its attempt to dismantle our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 200 troops with the Texas National Guard arrived in Illinois on Tuesday in order to protect federal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}