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"Border czar" Tom Homan announced that Texas National Guard troops began operations Tuesday in Illinois to protect federal immigration officers amid what he described as a sharp rise in attacks targeting ICE personnel.

"They’re on the ground, and they started working last night," Homan confirmed on " America Reports " Wednesday.

About 200 members of the Texas National Guard were mobilized for the mission, which the Pentagon says is intended to protect federal "functions, personnel and property."

TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYS 200 TROOPS TO ILLINOIS FOR FEDERAL PROTECTION MISSION AMID PROTESTS

The deployment follows more than a dozen arrests near an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, where anti-ICE protests have conti

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