{"id":19559,"date":"2025-09-30T09:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=19559"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:27:47","slug":"pritzker-says-feds-seeking-chicago-troop-deployment-what-i-have-been-warning-of-is-now-being-realized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/19559-pritzker-says-feds-seeking-chicago-troop-deployment-what-i-have-been-warning-of-is-now-being-realized\/","title":{"rendered":"Pritzker says feds seeking Chicago troop deployment. \u2018What I have been warning of is now being realized\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By BEN SZALINSKI <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&amp; JERRY NOWICKI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:news@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump administration is planning to send 100 military troops to the Chicago area, according to Gov. JB Pritzker\u2019s characterization of a memo received by the Illinois National Guard.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. JB Pritzker said the Trump administration is seeking to consolidate power: \u201cYou cannot call this anything except an attack on the Constitution of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move comes after days of violence outside a Broadview ICE detention center where federal agents have fired chemical agents and nonlethal rounds at protesters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the U.S. Border Patrol paraded through downtown Chicago on Sunday, where its commander told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/immigration\/2025\/09\/28\/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WBEZ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> his officers consider race when making arrests.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said the federal government\u00a0 should \u201cexpect a legal challenge here,\u201d if it sends troops.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to send 100 military troops to Chicago, according to Gov. JB Pritzker, who assailed the move as the Trump administration\u2019s latest \u2014 yet not unforeseen \u2014 push to consolidate power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat he plans to do with that power now or during the 2026 elections should worry all of us,\u201d Pritzker said at a Monday afternoon news conference, saying, \u201cYou cannot call this anything except an attack on the Constitution of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the days leading up to the news conference, armed Customs and Border Patrol officers paraded through the streets of Chicago arresting people and shot chemical projectiles at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/09\/28\/ice-escalates-violence-against-protesters-in-broadview-journalist-arrested\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">protesters in Broadview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including allegedly at a TV news reporter\u2019s car. As of Monday, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/09\/29\/four-charged-broadview-immigration-protests\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Chicago Tribune reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that federal prosecutors had charged five people in relation to recent protests, including two who were apparently armed, according to federal authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tribune reported that federal Judge Gabriel Fuentes noted there has been \u201ca tendency for ICE to be very aggressive,\u201d in response to the Broadview protests, and it was \u201cnot a surprise that there was a confrontation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll of this has been aimed at causing chaos and mayhem in the hopes of creating a pretext to deploy military troops against Chicago and Broadview and other suburbs, just as the president is doing right now in Oregon,\u201d Pritzker said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018What I have been warning of\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker has said for weeks that the Trump administration would use any skirmish resulting from its Chicago-area immigration crackdown as a \u201cpretext\u201d for a military deployment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat I have been warning of is now being realized,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker said the Illinois National Guard learned that the Department of Homeland Security sent a memo to the Department of War, formerly the Department of Defense, seeking 100 troops. He said the stated reason was to protect ICE facilities and other DHS agents working in Illinois. He said Oregon\u2019s National Guard received a similar notice on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe mobilization of the military isn&#8217;t just an ineffective strategy to address crime. It is illegal,\u201d Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raoul said Monday\u2019s memo is not enough for the state to file a lawsuit to block the military deployment, but the Trump administration \u201cshould expect a legal challenge here.\u201d He pointed to a recent ruling that declared a military deployment to Los Angeles earlier this year was illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raoul urged protesters to stay peaceful and said it is illegal to block federal agents from doing their jobs, including trying to block vehicles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI urge Illinoisans, don&#8217;t take the bait,\u201d Raoul said. \u201cThere is no emergency in Chicago. Don&#8217;t help him create one. Exercise your First Amendment rights, but do so peacefully, without violence or destruction of property.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker urged Illinoisans to broadcast ICE\u2019s actions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGet out your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media peacefully,\u201d he said. \u201cAsk for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won&#8217;t stand for it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business leaders, immigration rights advocates, faith leaders and other community advocates joined state leaders to condemn the Trump administration\u2019s actions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy hope is that the unanimity, the you know, the show of a broad swath of the city of Chicago, the state of Illinois, standing against what the federal government is attempting to do here will once again deter them from sending military troops,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Border Patrol\u2019s downtown march\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday\u2019s Border Patrol march through downtown, reporters and passersby <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAURA_N_ROD\/status\/1972513279420535272\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> witnessing several arrests while angry residents confronted the agents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAURA_N_ROD\/status\/1972513279420535272\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pictures<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the scene showed a young girl in tears, holding her baby doll while she and what appeared to be her parents were escorted by masked, armed and camouflage-clad agents on Michigan Avenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey&#8217;re not targeting violent criminals or gang members. They&#8217;re arresting tamale vendors and delivery men and shaking down families,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cDonald Trump and Kristi Noem and Tom Homan said they were targeting the worst of the worst criminals. They lied, and they continue to lie. Sixty percent of the individuals that ICE has taken in Illinois this year have no criminal convictions of any kind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noem is the DHS secretary, and Homan is the Trump-appointed border czar known for his hardline stance on immigration enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/immigration\/2025\/09\/28\/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bovino told WBEZ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Sunday that agents considered several factors when making arrests, including \u201cthe particular characteristics of an individual, how they look.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. Supreme Court <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/08\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-immigration-racial-profiling.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">overturned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a lower court order that would have prevented federal agents from stopping a person based on their race, language or other characteristics. While it wasn\u2019t the final decision on the case, it at least temporarily allowed tactics Bovino <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/29\/us\/gregory-bovino-immigration-california.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allegedly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used during CBP\u2019s Los Angeles campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Sun-Times <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/immigration\/2025\/09\/28\/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a verbal altercation between Bovino and a protestor who was videotaping the federal agents\u2019 march through Chicago. The newspaper reported Bovino approached the bystander and asked his citizenship status.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the pair briefly argued about whether the man must provide the information, he moved to a different location to continue to film the agents exploits, according to the newspaper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Violence at protests<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An ICE detention center in west suburban Broadview continued to be a highly visible front for the tensions between ICE and the Chicago area over the weekend. The several tense exchanges provided social media fodder for the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWave your signs, chant your slogans, hurl your verbal insults, and exercise your First Amendment rights \u2013 we&#8217;ll protect that,\u201d Bovino said in one of many <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CMDROpAtLargeCA\/status\/1972733132295283050\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">X posts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Monday. \u201cLay a finger on our agents, impede our mission, endanger those in our custody and we have a front row seat for you to our justice system.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But members of the National Lawyers Guild of Chicago, which observed the protests, said in a statement, \u201cofficers went after people who were simply gathered to support the active protesters.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, a CBS Chicago reporter said an ICE agent shot a pepper ball at her car as she drove by the scene with the window open.\u00a0 She said there were no protests happening at the facility at the time, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/feds-fire-pepper-ball-at-cbs-chicago-reporters-truck\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBS reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters when unprovoked, what would we call it?\u201d Pritzker asked. \u201cIf federal agents march down busy streets, harassing civilians and demanding their papers, what would we say? I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;d have any trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Broadview Police Department launched a criminal investigation into the incident involving the CBS reporter, and the Illinois State Police said in a statement the agency is supporting the police department.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cISP has reached out to the Broadview Police Department to offer appropriate law enforcement assistance related to recent events and is providing general support, including traffic assistance, in response the Broadview Police Department\u2019s request around maintaining public safety during planned protests,\u201d spokesperson Melaney Arnold said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arnold said ISP is always on alert for large protests and shares intelligence with \u201call levels\u201d of law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An independent journalist also reported being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/peoplesfabric.com\/post\/3lzvuer2toc2m\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arrested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Saturday night and later was released Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. 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