Courts in Illinois and Oregon on Thursday will weigh the objections of Democratic governors to President Donald Trump’s National Guard deployments in those states, as soldiers began patrolling at a Chicago-area immigration facility that has become a focal point of protests.

A federal judge in Illinois will decide whether to temporarily stop the National Guard from deploying to Chicago, while an appeals court in California will review a lower court’s temporary order blocking Trump’s decision to send troops to Portland, Oregon.

Early on Thursday morning, about seven or eight soldiers milled around inside the gates at an immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois, on the outskirts of Chicago, carrying sidearms but without rifles, shields or other riot gear.

The facility, run by U.S. Immig

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