The Governor of Illinois J. B. Pritzker said on Saturday that the Trump administration said that the Ministry of Defense plans to fediment 300 members of the Illinois National Guard and expand them in his state.
“It is absolutely outrageous and non-American to demand that the governor send military troops within our borders and against our will,” Pritzker said in his statement, adding that the officials of the Ministry of Defense gave him an ultimatum to “release your troops or we.”
“I want to clarify: in the state of Illinois there is no need for military troops,” Pritzker added. “I will not call our National Guard to continue the acts of Trump's aggression against our people.”
The White House and the Ministry of Defense did not immediately respond to a request about the comments about the statement of Pritzker or the potential deployment of troops in Illinois, although the president For several weeks threatened To jump up federal law enforcement agencies and troops of the National Guard in Chicago.
This news appeared as the Trump administration and officials in Portland, Oregon, expect a federal judge’s decision in relation to the separate deployment of the National Guard forces, which the president authorized to defend immigration and customs services in the city on Friday.
This step activated 200 troops of the National Guard in Portland in the framework of the declared agenda of the president to combat crime in American cities.
Oregon and Portland city Judging The Trump administration is looking for a temporary prohibition in an attempt to prevent the president from sending the troops of the National Guard there, pushing the president’s claims that the protests were violent or got out of control.
The Ministry of Defense announced that it was activated by troops to support and protect federal employees and property in the Portland area, while they expect the decision of the federal judge in this case.
The case happens after Trump said in a post on social networks Last week, he sent the Minister of Defense of Pete Hegset to deploy troops to Portland, claiming that the city was “under the siege from the attack of Antifa and other internal terrorists.”
The president pointed to protests Next to immigration and customs institutions in Oregon as evidence of his claims.
“In the end, we have a problem with perception and reality,” said Caroline Turko, senior deputy city prosecutor Portland, Caroline Turko During the hearing Before the District Judge of the United States Karin J. Immort on Friday. “The perception is that here is the Second World War. The reality is that it is a wonderful city with a complex resource that can cope with the situation. ”
The lawyer of the federal government, the deputy assistant to the Prosecutor General Eric Hamilton, pointed out the insulated incidents of protesters, illuminating incendiary devices and throwing stones as evidence that the troops are necessary to protect against the “cruel radicals that showed” on ice facilities.
Trump turned around Troops of the National Guard This year, in two other American cities of Los Angeles and Washington, the District of Colombia, in California, the Trump administration said that she sent troops and naval infantrymen of the National Guard to suppress protests against ICE, while in Washington the president said that the troops of the National Guard were deployed to combat crime.
In early September, the federal judge ruled that the deployment of Trump of Marines and National Guards in Los Angels was illegalA few days after this decision, lawyers in Washington, District of Colombia, He also sued the court The deployment of troops in the capital of the country.
The President also threatened to deploy the troops of the National Guard to other American cities, which are controlled by Democrats mayor Baltimore And New OrleansField
Trump's decision to deploy troops in several American cities received the resumption of the audit in the beginning of this week after He said to the senior military leaders On Monday, “we must use some of these dangerous cities as training venues for our military, national guard.”
