Chicago and Illinois filed a lawsuit to stop the deployments, calling them unnecessary and illegal. Photo: AP PHOTO

The US state of Illinois has urged a judge to order the National Guard to stand down in the Chicago area, calling the deployment a constitutional crisis and suggesting the Trump administration gave no heed to the pending legal challenge when it sent troops to an immigration enforcement building.

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The government "ploughed ahead anyway," lawyer Christopher Wells from the state attorney general's office said.

"Now, troops are here."

Wells' arguments opened an extraordina

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