Pritzker calls the deployment of Trump Texas troops an `invasion ”

Illinois governor JB Pritzker announced on Sunday that President Donald Trump would deploy 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, Oregon and other places.

The deployment came while demonstrations against federal police increases across the country, in particular in Portland and Chicago.

In the Windy City, several people have been arrested in recent days for having declared their vehicles in the cars of the agents of the DHS and the ice.

After announcing the deployment of Trump on X Sunday late Sunday, Pritzker wrote that “no official of the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate”.

Chicago anti-glossy demonstrators block vehicles, are hit with tear gas and pepper balls

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker criticized President Trump’s decision to deploy 400 troops from the Texas National Guard to Illinois and Oregon. (Getty Images)

“We must now start to call this what is: Trump’s invasion,” wrote the Democratic Governor.

“It started with federal agents, he will soon understand the deployment of federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and this will now imply sending military troops from another state.”

Pritzker also revealed that he had called the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot, “immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate”.

Portland anti-ice rioters with a guillotine come up against the police in war stages

Police come up against demonstrators during a demonstration outside an immigrant treatment and detention center on October 3, 2025 in BroadView, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

“There is no reason for a president to send military troops to a sovereign state without the knowledge, their consent or their cooperation,” added the governor.

“The courageous men and women who serve in our national guards should not be used as political accessories. This is a time when each American must speak and help stop this madness.”

The law enforcement agents are held in tear gas outside an American immigration and application of customs during a demonstration on Saturday October 4, 2025, in Portland, Oregon (AP photo / Jenny Kane) (AP photo / Jenny Kane)

In recent days, a large number of demonstrators have been reduced against the implementation measures of immigration across the country. Ice shared a video of a portland demonstrator in detention on Sunday.

Ice shared a video showing a suspect that is rolled on a flat cart in Portland, Oregon. (@Icegov via x)

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In BroadView, Illinois, Friday, more than a dozen people were arrested by federal agents During the demonstrations in an ice treatment installation. Agents were seen draw balls of pepper, tear gas and rubber bullets to clear crowds.