Insurrection Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThere is no invasion here. There is no insurrection here. \u2026 The folks in the neighborhoods do not want armed troops marching in their streets,\u201d he said at the conference.<\/p>\n
Multiple people have been arrested in recent days for ramming vehicles into DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents\u2019 cars and blocking federal law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called acts like these \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cICE officers should not have to live in fear of violence to do their jobs,\u201d he told CNN in an interview Monday.<\/p>\n
Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling stressed Monday that law enforcement would continue to step in to protect federal officials when citizens break the law, such as when protesters box in ICE officers who are trying to do their jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you box them in domestically with vehicles, it is reasonable for them to believe that they are being ambushed and that this could end in a deadly situation, and it\u2019s reasonable for them to use force based on those conditions. Do not box in any law enforcement officer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Snelling also responded to critics that said officers had either delayed or not deployed police to help federal officials in the city over the weekend, saying that 27 officers who were at the scene of a protest had been affected by chemical agents used by federal officers.<\/p>\n
He said that city police frequently work with federal officers to stop human trafficking, drug smuggling and gun violence, but they are not allowed to help with immigration enforcement due to a local law known as the Trust Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Trust Act prohibits law enforcement in the state of Illinois from engaging in assisting federal agents when it comes to immigration enforcement. We abide by that law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Protesters have pointed to violent behavior from ICE officials, who have conducted overnight raids in Chicago apartments. One ICE agent shot and killed a Mexican immigrant last month in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park after he dropped his kids off at daycare. <\/p>\n
ICE initially said one officer was \u201cseriously injured\u201d during the deadly incident, but the Chicago Sun Times has reported the agent said his injuries were \u201cnothing major\u201d in body camera footage from local police.<\/p>\n
Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote on X Sunday that he had \u201cfully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials.\u201d<\/p>\n
The administration has teased deploying the National Guard to Chicago for several weeks to help with multiple missions. Last month, the president repeatedly said he would use the Guard to fight crime in the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going in. I didn\u2019t say when. We\u2019re going in,\u201d Trump said at the White House on Sept. 2. <\/p>\n
\u201cChicago is a hellhole right now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Chicago ranks 13th in total crime rates for American cities with populations of at least 250,000, with Memphis, Cleveland and St. Louis plagued with the highest total crime rates, according to FBI crime data. <\/p>\n
Even as Chicago\u2019s crime rates are down across the board this year, dozens of people were shot and at least seven people were killed in the city in a surge of violence over the Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n
Portland orders paused<\/p>\n
A federal judge late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, after the administration made multiple attempts to mobilize troops there.<\/p>\n
The president had ordered California National Guard troops to Portland on Sunday after the same judge blocked him from using Oregon\u2019s National Guard the day before.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, granted a temporary restraining order sought by California and Oregon.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention to the temporary restraining order I issued yesterday?\u201d she asked the federal government\u2019s attorney.<\/p>\n
Stephen Miller called the ruling \u201cLegal insurrection\u201d on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
The administration\u2019s stance conflicts with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s comments about federalizing the Guard during the Biden administration. <\/p>\n
In February 2024, while governor of South Dakota, Noem posted on X that it would be a \u201cdirect attack on states\u2019 rights\u201d if the Biden administration federalized South Dakota\u2019s National Guard to stop them from performing duties at the U.S.-Mexico border. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf [Biden] is willing to do that, and to take away my authority as governor as commander in chief of those National Guard, boy, we do have a war on our hands,\u201d Noem told Fox News that same month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 200 Texas National Guard troops are set to deploy to Chicago on Monday night unless a judge…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,19118,58517,19100,100898,19119,100899,5410,5386,1818,143590,100900,7090,145271],"class_list":{"0":"post-283327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-circulated-air-force-times","10":"tag-circulated-army-times","11":"tag-circulated-defense-news","12":"tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","13":"tag-circulated-military-times","14":"tag-circulated-navy-times","15":"tag-ice","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-illinois","18":"tag-illinois-national-guard","19":"tag-military-times","20":"tag-national-guard","21":"tag-texas-national-guard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115331310822052671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}