"In an emergency filing, the justice department urged the court to overturn a lower court ruling that halted the deployment of several hundred National Guard troops to the Chicago area. The district judge had raised doubts about the administration's justification for sending troops, questioning its explanation in light of local conditions. A federal appeals court upheld the lower court's decision on Thursday, keeping the deployment on hold while the legal challenge proceeds."
"D John Sauer, the solicitor general representing the administration, wrote in the new filing that federal agents have repeatedly been threatened and assaulted in Chicago and the suburb of Broadview, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility is located. Trump has already sent National Guard units to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, following earlier deployments to Los Angeles, Memphis, and Washington DC. The president has argued that military intervention is needed to curb unrest and bolster immigration enforcement."
"Democratic officials have pushed back sharply, saying the president's claims are greatly exaggerated and politically motivated. They accuse Trump of misusing his authority to punish opponents. Judges have also voiced skepticism about the administration's depiction of events. Local leaders say protests over immigration enforcement have been mostly small and peaceful, contradicting Trump's characterization of war zone conditions. A recent report from the Guardian revealed that US military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Trump's dep"
The Trump administration requested Supreme Court permission to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois and asked to overturn a lower court ruling that halted several hundred troops bound for Chicago. Lower courts questioned the administration's justification and left the deployment on hold pending legal review. The solicitor general claimed federal agents faced repeated threats and assaults near Chicago and Broadview, home to an ICE detention facility. The president previously deployed Guard units to several cities, citing unrest and immigration enforcement needs, while Democratic officials and judges contested the scale and motives of those deployments, calling many protests small and peaceful.
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