An armored vehicle carrying Ice members pulls up by a crowd of protesters outside of a processing facility in Broadview, Illinois on October 3rd. Photograph: Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times
National guard troops from Texas are heading to Illinois after a US federal judge declined to immediately block them in response to a lawsuit from the state against the Trump administration.
Texas national guard members departed the Fort Bliss military installation in El Paso on a US military transport plane on Monday evening.
Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, said he was heading to Chicago as well. “Chicago will be saved, and this FBI will continue to crush violent crime there, and all around the country. Heading to the Windy City now,” he wrote on X on Tuesday.
The US district judge April Perry allowed the federal government to continue th
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