As per the AP, President Donald Trump is sending the National Guard to Chicago to provide law and order. For decades Chicago has been a killing fields dating back to the Obama administration. The Democrat Illinois governor and Chicago mayor are urging a federal judge to intervene and stop “Trump’s long-declared ‘War’” on the state. Trump has repeatedly described Chicago in hostile terms, calling it a “hell hole” of crime.
National Guard members from Texas were getting settled at an Army Reserve center in Illinois on Tuesday,
The most visible sign yet of the Trump administration’s plan to send troops to the Chicago area despite a lawsuit and vigorous opposition from Democratic elected leaders.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has accused President Donald Trump of using troops as “political props” and “pawns,” said he didn’t get a heads-up from Washington.
The Associated Press saw military personnel in uniforms with the Texas National Guard patch at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.