The Democratic-led US state of Illinois filed suit on Monday to block President Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago.

The lawsuit comes one day after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the Republican president from sending soldiers to the state’s biggest city Portland as part of his crackdown on crime and undocumented migrants.

Trump over the weekend authorized the deployment of 700 National Guard soldiers to Chicago despite the opposition of elected Democratic leaders including the mayor and Governor JB Pritzker.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Illinois, the state Attorney General Kwame Raoul and counsel for Chicago accused Trump of using US troops “to punish his political enemies.”

“The American people, regardless of where they r

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