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Judges have blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard chicago and in portlandOregon, but soldiers are now patrolling memphisTennessee, with the blessing of the Governor of the State.
Dressed in guard attire and protective jackets, carrying guns in holsters, soldiers patrolled a Bass Pro Shops store and a nearby tourist welcome center along the Mississippi River on Friday. It’s unclear how many troops have been deployed to Memphis.
Trump has also sent or discussed sending troops to other cities, including Baltimore; District of Columbia; new Orleans; and the California cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The federal government says the troops support immigration agents and protect federal property.
Guard troops in Memphis remain under the command of Republican Governor Bill Lee, who supports their use to pursue a federal crackdown on crime.
Conversely, Trump has attempted to deploy National Guard troops — including some troops from Texas and California — to Portland and Chicago, despite objections from state and local leaders. federal courts in Illinois And Oregon this week blocked Trump’s efforts to send troops to those cities.
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what’s happening in memphis
Trump announced on September 15 that he intended to deploy the Guard to Memphis, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, adopted a plan to strengthen law enforcement operations there.
Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat who did not request the deployment, said he hoped the task force would target violent criminals rather than intimidate, harass or threaten residents.
Federal officials say agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Marshals Service have made hundreds of arrests and issued more than 2,800 traffic citations since the task force began operating in Memphis on Sept. 29.
Illinois senators refused entry to ICE building
Illinois Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth said they were denied access Friday to the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, the site of a confrontation between protesters and federal agents.
“It is appalling that two United States senators are not allowed to tour this facility,” Duckworth said. “What are you afraid of?”
Senators said they have the authority to oversee Congress.
“There’s something going on there that they don’t want us to see,” Durbin said. “I don’t know what it is.”
Illinois judge bans troop deployment
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the deployment of troops to Chicago for at least two weeks. The Justice Department appealed the next day.
U.S. District Judge April Perry in Chicago said the Trump administration violated the 10th Amendment, which grants certain powers to states, and the 14th Amendment, which assures due process and equal protection, when he ordered National Guard troops into the city.
Explaining his reasoning in a written order Friday, Perry noted the country’s longstanding dislike of military involvement in domestic policing.
Perry wrote, “Even the Founding Fathers who were not in the most ardent favor of a strong federal government”—Alexander Hamilton—”believed that the troops of one state could be sent into another state for purposes of political retribution.”
Hamilton called that notion “absurd”.
Governor JB Pritzker said, “The Court confirms what we all know: There is no credible evidence of an insurrection in the state of Illinois. And there is no place for the National Guard on the streets of American cities like Chicago.”
Oregon judge also blocks Trump’s efforts
Earlier, a similar troop deployment to Portland had been delayed due to another court battle in Oregon. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in that case on Thursday.
Lieutenant Commander. U.S. Northern Command spokeswoman Theresa Meadows said the troops sent to Portland and Chicago “are not conducting any operational activities at this time.”
Soldiers patrol outside Chicago
Five hundred Guard members from Texas and Illinois arrived at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, southwest of Chicago, this week and have been activated for 60 days.
They began patrolling behind a portable fence outside the ICE Broadview facility Thursday morning.
A federal judge late Thursday ordered ICE to remove a separate 8-foot-high (2.4 m) fence outside the Broadview facility, because the Village of Broadview said it illegally blocked a public road.
Also on Thursday, another federal judge in Illinois temporarily ordered federal agents to wear badges and banned them from using certain riot control weapons against peaceful protesters and journalists outside an ICE facility about 12 miles (19 kilometers) west of Chicago.
In Chicago, federal prosecutors have obtained indictments from a grand jury against a man and a woman accused of ramming and striking a Border Patrol agent’s vehicle using their vehicles last Saturday.
The agent got out of his car and fired five shots at 30-year-old Marimar Martínez, who was treated at a hospital. The indictment filed Thursday formalizes charges of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon — including a vehicle. Anthony Ruiz, 21, has also been charged.
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Associated Press journalists across the United States contributed, including Adrian Saenz in Memphis, Tennessee; Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon; Sophia Tareen and Christine Fernando in Chicago; and Josh Bock and Konstantin Toropin in Washington, DC