Texas national guard troops reached Chicago as President Donald Trump-led administration’s continued to crackdown on immigrants.

According to The Guardian, Chicago has already seen a ramping up of immigration enforcement in the past few weeks, as well as increasingly violent altercations in the suburb of Broadview, where law enforcement has been filmed deploying tear gas and pepper gas against protestors.

The presence of Texas national guard troops in Chicago on Tuesday came after US district judge April Perry declined to immediately block troops from entering the city.

The lawsuit was filed on Monday by Illinois attorney general Kwame Raoul to prevent Trump from enlisting the state’s national guard or sending in troops from other states such as Texas “immediately and permanently".

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