The Illinois government sued US President Donald Trump on Monday for the deployment of 400 soldiers of the National Guard in Chicago sent from Texas to combat protests against migratory raids in the state, where the border patrol shot a woman on Saturday.
Illinois Attorney General’s law, Kwame Raoul, argues that Trump’s government “has exceeded his authority” because “there is none of the legal requirements that justify the federalization and deployment of the National Guard”, such as an invasion, a rebellion or the lack of application of the federal law.
“Illinois is taking the Trump administration to the Court for its illegal and unconstitutional deployment of military troops in our state,” said the governor of the entity, the Democrat JB Pritzker, in a pronouncement in his social networks.
The legal appeal, which also includes the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, appeared before the Court of the Northern District of Illinois, a state where about 15% of the population is immigrant, including more than 527 thousand undocumented, according to the American Immigration Council.
The deployment ordered by Trump occurs in the midst of the growing protests against migratory raids in Chicago, where border patrol agents shot Saturday in the South Side area and wounded an American citizen.
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Weeks before, on September 12, Mexican Silverio Villegas-González, 38, died after receiving a shot from an officer who, supposedly, suffered seriously injuries because the immigrant ran over him.
But prosecutor Raoul argued that the Federal Government has not given a legal explanation about its deployment of the National Guard.
“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of an occupation of the United States military, particularly for the reason that the leadership of their city or state has fallen out of favor for the president,” he said in a position.
Illinois’s demand arrives hours after a federal judge prevented the president from deploying 300 troops from the California National Guard in the neighboring state of Oregon, where he seeks to combat protests against the customs immigration and control service (ICE, in English) in Portland.
The president, who last week asked the soldiers to fight in the United States against the “inner enemy”, lost a legal battle to have in June 4,000 soldiers of the California National Guard without the consent of the state government, a fact that did not happen in the United States for 60 years.
With EFE information
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