A United States appeals court ruled this Saturday (11) that National Guard soldiers sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump will be able to remain in the state, but are not authorized to act on patrols or protect federal buildings for now.
The decision was made after federal judge April Perry suspended the use of troops for at least two weeks. She understood that there is no sign of “danger of rebellion” in Illinois during the Trump administration’s operation to tighten immigration policies.
According to Perry, sending the military would only be justified if the civil authorities had lost control, which is not the case. “There was no demonstration that the civil power failed,” wrote the judge. “The agitators who violated the law were arrested, the courts are functioning and federal agents continue to fulfill their role.”
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The judge even cited the Federalist Papers, texts from 1787 that supported the American Constitution, to reinforce that recourse to the Army should only be used in extreme situations.
The troops – about 500 members of the Illinois and Texas National Guard – are based at an Army center in the city of Elwood, southwest of Chicago, and part of them at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Broadview.
The deployment of the military is part of a political and judicial dispute over Trump’s strategy of reinforcing the federal presence in American cities under the argument of containing crime – an allegation that, according to official data, is not confirmed in all cases. Source: Associated Press
