President Donald Trump’s deployment of 500 National Guard troops to Chicago has been put on hold. A federal judge granted the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago a stay on the deployment of troops to the city, intended to assist federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge April Perry granted the motion temporarily putting the deployment on hold while the case is deliberated. The injunction comes after a contentious three-hour hearing Thursday.
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The troops, hailing from both Illinois and Texas, had arrived in Chicago earlier this week.
Perry, a Biden appointee, said in her ruling acquired by the Chicago Sun-Times that the Trump administration’s argument that immigration agents were being targeted by a “brazen new form of hostility” didn’t hold water. State and city attorneys maintained that they were sufficiently able to assist immigration agents amid the protests. Her written ruling is due to be released on Friday.
Protests near the Broadview ICE facility have resulted in arrests, including violent felonies.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday night that Trump “is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.”
“Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois,” he said. “And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.”
Protests
Residents on Wednesday night gathered along Michigan Ave., near Trump Tower, to protest their arrival.
“The whole city is just being taken over, and I’m sick and tired of ICE being here, hurting my people,” Chicago resident Angelina Echevarria, 23, told Straight Arrow News.
Frank Ackerman, 61, said from his standpoint, Trump bringing in Texas National Guard members is “totally overkill.”
“This is a very safe city,” he said. “Crime is down in the city.”
Chicago has seen a reduction in violent crime in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 and a marked decrease from spikes that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
