{"id":174941,"date":"2025-10-08T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=174941"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:03:59","slug":"texas-national-guard-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=174941","title":{"rendered":"Texas National Guard in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-174944 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng.jpg?w=1320&amp;ssl=1 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Insurrection Act, 1807<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[I]n all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the<br \/>\nUnited States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is<br \/>\nlawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia<br \/>\nfor the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the<br \/>\nlaws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for<br \/>\nthe same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the<br \/>\nUnited States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed<br \/>\nall the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.<br \/>\nInsurrection Act of 1807, ch. 39, 2 Stat. 443, 443<\/p>\n<h3>Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Pritzker decries &#8216;authoritarian march&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Story by Peter Charalambous, Bill Hutchinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources familiar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas National Guard boarded a military plane on Monday afternoon in Texas, as state and city leaders in Illinois were holding a news conference asking them to stay away from Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday shared a photo on social media showing what he called the state&#8217;s &#8220;elite&#8221; National Guard boarding a plane, but he did not say where they were headed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Illinois will not let the Trump administration continue on their authoritarian march without resisting,&#8221; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said. &#8220;We will use every lever at our disposal to stop this power grab because military troops should not be used against American communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Texas National Guard members were video-recorded by ABC Chicago Station WLS on Tuesday at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, Illinois, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/texas-national-guard-arrives-in-illinois-as-pritzker-decries-authoritarian-march\/ar-AA1O1CNH?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At what point does opposition become sedition? This point right here.<\/p>\n<h3>Texas National Guard deploys 200 troops to Illinois for federal protection mission amid protests<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Pentagon confirms 60-day mission to Illinois as Chicago mayor calls operation &#8216;illegal and unconstitutional&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Alexandra Koch , Patrick McGovern<br \/>\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson reiterated on Tuesday he believes the deployment is &#8220;illegal, unconstitutional, dangerous and wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In an executive order signed Monday, Johnson created &#8220;ICE-free zones,&#8221; prohibiting federal immigration agents from using city-owned property for immigration enforcement operations.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-national-guard-deploys-200-troops-illinois-federal-protection-mission-amid-protests\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurrection Act, 1807 [I]n all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":174944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-guard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tng.jpg?fit=1320%2C743&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-JvD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}