The Texas National Guard goes to Illinois, while Governor Pritzker asks for the end of the “authoritarian march” of the Trump administration
As members of the Texas National Guard He boarded a plane On Monday, state and municipal leaders of Illinois held a press conference asking them to stay away from Chicago.
It was not clear immediately when the guard members would arrive in Chicago. The Governor of Texas, Abbott, shared on Monday a photo on the social networks that shows the National Guard “Elite” of the state addressing a plane, but did not say where they were heading.
“Illinois will not allow the Trump administration to continue with its authoritarian march without resisting,” said Illinois governor JB Pritzker. “We will use all the levers at our disposal to stop this power because military troops should not be used against US communities.”
A security guard monitors the street outside a processing center of the customs immigration and control service (ICE) on Broadview, Illinois, on September 10, 2025.
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Earlier that same day, Abbott He had responded To Pritzker on social networks, saying: “I fully authorized the president to summon 400 members of the Texas National Guard to guarantee the safety of federal officials.”
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block the federalization and deployment of the National Guard.
The fundamental principle that separates the army from internal affairs is “in danger” while Trump seeks to deploy the National Guard to Cities from all over the country, they wrote in the lawyers of Illinois and Chicago.
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, speaks at a press conference on October 6, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.
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“Let me be clear: Donald Trump is using our members of the service as political support and as pawns in their illegal effort to militarize the cities of our nation,” Pritzker said during a press conference.
To support his point, Pritzker reproduced a video of an ICE raid made last week in an apartment complex in the South Shore neighborhood in Chicago, which according to him was filmed by federal authorities with high -definition cameras for social networks. He said it was the same video as the Secretary of the United States National Security Department, Kristi Noem, published on social networks on Saturday.
“Black Hawk military helicopters brought and more than 100 agents with full tactical equipment,” said Pritzker.
He added: “In the middle of the night and apparently for the cameras, armed federal agents emerged from the Black Hawk helicopters and descended in Rápel to the roof of that apartment building.”
The governor claimed that the Trump administration is following a manual to “cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mob when shooting forgives and tear gas boats. Why? To create the pretext to invoke the insurrection law to be able to send military troops to our city,” said Pritzker.
Speaking to journalists in the Oval office on Monday afternoon, Trump said he still did not see the need to use the insurrection law, but that “if he had to promulgate it, he would do so, if they were killing people and the courts were braking us, or the governors or mayors were braking us.”
