(Washington) A federal appeals court confirmed Thursday the suspension of the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago and its region ordered by US President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump ordered the deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago, saying they were needed to fight crime and protect federal immigration enforcement (ICE) agents in the third-largest city in the United States.
The appeals court found that the administration had not established that the conditions prevailing in this Illinois city, the third largest in the United States, justified the deployment of the military.
The government has not demonstrated “the existence of a rebellion or danger of rebellion in Illinois,” the court ruled.
“Heavy, ongoing, and occasionally violent actions by demonstrators protesting government immigration policies and actions alone do not constitute a danger of rebellion against government authority.”
The Court of Appeal therefore confirms the decision of the trial judge on October 9 until it has ruled on the merits.
April Perry then suspended the deployment of National Guard reservists to Chicago for two weeks.
The judge, seized by the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, and the mayor of Chicago, described the allegations of officials of the Department of Homeland Security as “unreliable”.
For weeks, the Republican president had been targeting Chicago, announcing that he wanted to deploy the National Guard there as he did in Los Angeles, Washington, and Memphis, each time against the advice of local Democratic authorities.
A similar deployment in Portland, another city run by Democrats, was temporarily blocked by the courts.
Donald Trump has made the fight against illegal immigration a top priority, speaking of an “invasion” of the United States by “criminals from abroad” and communicating extensively on expulsions of immigrants.
