{"id":174941,"date":"2025-10-08T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=174941"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:03:59","slug":"texas-national-guard-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=174941","title":{"rendered":"Texas National Guard in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-174944 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Insurrection Act, 1807<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[I]n all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the<br \/>\nUnited States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is<br \/>\nlawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia<br \/>\nfor the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the<br \/>\nlaws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for<br \/>\nthe same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the<br \/>\nUnited States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed<br \/>\nall the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.<br \/>\nInsurrection Act of 1807, ch. 39, 2 Stat. 443, 443<\/p>\n<h3>Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Pritzker decries &#8216;authoritarian march&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Story by Peter Charalambous, Bill Hutchinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources familiar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas National Guard boarded a military plane on Monday afternoon in Texas, as state and city leaders in Illinois were holding a news conference asking them to stay away from Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday shared a photo on social media showing what he called the state&#8217;s &#8220;elite&#8221; National Guard boarding a plane, but he did not say where they were headed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Illinois will not let the Trump administration continue on their authoritarian march without resisting,&#8221; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said. &#8220;We will use every lever at our disposal to stop this power grab because military troops should not be used against American communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Texas National Guard members were video-recorded by ABC Chicago Station WLS on Tuesday at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, Illinois, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/texas-national-guard-arrives-in-illinois-as-pritzker-decries-authoritarian-march\/ar-AA1O1CNH?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At what point does opposition become sedition? This point right here.<\/p>\n<h3>Texas National Guard deploys 200 troops to Illinois for federal protection mission amid protests<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Pentagon confirms 60-day mission to Illinois as Chicago mayor calls operation &#8216;illegal and unconstitutional&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Alexandra Koch , Patrick McGovern<br \/>\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson reiterated on Tuesday he believes the deployment is &#8220;illegal, unconstitutional, dangerous and wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In an executive order signed Monday, Johnson created &#8220;ICE-free zones,&#8221; prohibiting federal immigration agents from using city-owned property for immigration enforcement operations.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-national-guard-deploys-200-troops-illinois-federal-protection-mission-amid-protests\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurrection Act, 1807 [I]n all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the &hellip; <a title=\"Texas National Guard in Illinois\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=174941\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas National Guard in Illinois<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":174944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}