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The State of Illinois and the City of Chicago have launched a joint lawsuit against the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard in Broadview, Illinois, a suburb just outside of Chicago.
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday he would deploy 300 National Guard soldiers to tackle the « out-of-control crime » in the small suburb of Broadview, IL. On Monday, he doubled down, announcing an additional 400 agents from Texas’s National Guard would also make their way West.
The Trump administration’s illegal actions have subjected, and are subjecting Illinois to serious and irreparable harm.
Illinois and Chicago Sue
The state of Illinois and the City of Chicago filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, claiming he planned to “use American soldiers to punish his political enemies,” and this was only the most recent example in “months of threats by Trump, …Kristi Noam, and others in the Trump administration,”
The lawsuit continued to call Trump’s deployment of troops “patently unlawful” and calls on the court to “halt the illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional federalization of members of the National Guard.”
The lawsuit cites Illinois’ right to self-governance and claims that the government’s actions will only cause more unrest in the City of Chicago. The lawsuit cited the harming of social fabric, the loss of trust in law enforcement, and the irreparable harm to Illinois businesses that the deployment has/will cause.
Illinois asks this Court to declare these actions unlawful and enjoin them.
Clashes with police this weekend
Tensions between ICE and protesters came to a head on Thursday after multiple protesters rammed and blocked in ICE Agents vehicles. One woman, a U.S. citizen, was hospitalized after being shot five times by a US Customs and Border Protection officer after ramming her car into the officer’s vehicle.
Law enforcement has not confirmed whether the victim was armed or not, contrary to DHS’s statement.
At least ten vehicles were actively attempting to impede the Federal Agents; no officers were injured by those protesters.
Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, posted on X that “Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon.”
She continued by stating that “Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.”
Law enforcement has not confirmed whether the victim was armed or not, contrary to DHS’s statement.
After the incident on Thursday, President Trump announced on Saturday that he would deploy 300 National Guard troops to Illinois to aid the “out-of-control crime.”
Trump doubled down on that statement on Monday, threatening an additional 400 troops from Texas’s National Guard.
A consistent presence
Protesters focused their demonstration at the Broadview ICE facility, just outside Chicago, shutting down the Northbound exit of Beach Street onto Lexington Street.
Protesters have been active at this location for weeks. ICE set up three-foot-tall concrete barricades on either side of the street to control the crowd.
More than 1000 people have been detained by Immigration Enforcement in Chicago in 2025, including more than 900 during ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz.”
Police Officers tear-gassed
Numerous Chicago Police Department officers were left incapacitated after being ‘accidentally’ tear-gassed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Saturday, Chicago Police Department and the Department of Homeland Security confirms.
Broadview City Police Chief Thomas Mills says this is not the first time that poorly trained ICE agents have tear-gassed his officers. He also cited an incident in September where he was verbally assaulted by an ICE agent, claiming that in his 37 years on the force, he had never seen Federal agents behave so violently and unprofessionally.
On Saturday, at least five officers were left incapacitated and struggling against the effects of a tear gas canister that was “recklessly” thrown from a moving SUV by ICE agents. Bystanders spoke to reporters about the drive-by attack, claiming they had to run from the gas. Not everyone affected was a part of the protest, according to CBS.
Newly (poorly) trained agents
President Donald Trump stated he aimed to double the number of ICE agents by the end of 2025. Training to become an ICE agent used to be a five-month escapade, where candidates were instilled with the letter of the law and the Constitution. ICE agents took pride in being experts in diffusion and humane arrest practices.
Since the Trump administration took over the agency, the training has been reduced to just 47 days, according to The Atlantic. ICE’s upper management has been continually shaken and stirred, as the agency fails to meet the lofty deportation targets set by Trump’s administration.
What has resulted is an agency run by what many call a group of unqualified ideologists, with California Representative Robert Garcia stating that “It is deeply concerning that DHS may be allowing a temporary appointee to function as a senior executive without proper appointment.”
ICE currently has more than 6,000 deportation officers, and the Trump administration aims to add another 8,000 by the end of 2025. ICE is offering signing bonuses of up to $ 50,000 USD and has dropped all of its age restrictions. Before August 2025, ICE agents had to be at least 21 and no older than 40; those restrictions have now been dropped. Currently, the minimum age required to become an ICE agent is 18.
The requirements to qualify are also minimal: pass a background check and meet basic fitness and medical standards; that’s it. ICE does not require applicants to have any experience in law enforcement, and within 50 days, it feels comfortable arming and deploying its trainees onto the streets.
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Alberta Premier Warns Trump
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Politico during an on-stage interview at the US-Canada Summit that she fears Donald Trump could interfere in Alberta’s separatist movement, which has gained momentum in recent years.
«I don’t want any foreign interference in our politics here,»
A movement she says stems from what she views as ten years of mismanagement by former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
As Trump repeatedly raises the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state, Smith clearly fears he could revive the separatist movement she hopes will fade with Justin Trudeau’s departure earlier this year and the arrival of his successor, Mark Carney.
Smith’s message was clear: «I don’t want any foreign interference in our politics here,» she told Politico.
Speaking about her meeting with Carney, Smith made her position explicit: «I’ve told Prime Minister Mark Carney that Justin Trudeau created an independence movement in Alberta and he can take the wind out of it.»
The premier left little doubt about her intention to see Alberta remain within Canada, noting previously that while she «cannot control the emotion of Albertans,» if the referendum question «Do you want to remain in Canada?» were to be asked, she would want «that vote to be ‘Yes.’»
The Forever Canadian campaign
A major petition is now circulating in Alberta under the banner of the Forever Canadian campaign, launched by former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk. The initiative asks a direct question: «Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?»
To trigger a referendum, the petition requires 177,000 valid signatures, and with more than 230,000 already collected, organizers are aiming for 300,000 before the October 28 deadline to ensure it passes Elections Alberta’s review.
If successful, it would not only force a vote but also block any competing sovereignty questions for the next five years.
This effort runs in parallel to Premier Danielle Smith’s political balancing act. While Smith has said she wants Albertans to answer «Yes» to remaining in Canada, she has also aligned herself with groups like the Alberta Prosperity Project that push for a sovereignty referendum.
The petition, by pre-empting separatist initiatives, could complicate Smith’s strategy and highlight the province’s deep divide between federalist and independence forces.
The government shutdown afflicting the Trump administration is creating major headaches for travelers, as airlines across the U.S. face severe delays amid staffing shortages at the FAA.
Ripple effects are disrupting flights almost everywhere, according to CNN.
As the Trump administration completes its first full week of the government shutdown, signs of a major crisis are emerging across unfunded sectors.
Airports are being hit especially hard, with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) staffing shortages causing delays that now ripple through nearly every flight.
«There’s controllers that have called up sick, and we’re tracking it.»
Travelers are facing long waits, cancellations, and growing uncertainty over their plans, as major airports and hubs across the country experience ripple effects from problems at individual centers.
Employees reporting sick
Major U.S. cities have been hit hard by the shortage of air traffic controllers, forcing cancellations and delays at Los Angeles International Airport in California, Chicago’s O’Hare in Illinois, as well as airports in Denver, Colorado, and Nashville, Tennessee.
The shortage of air traffic controllers has been aggravated by staff calling in sick, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy noting: «There’s controllers that have called up sick, and we’re tracking it.»
The longer the government shutdown continues, the more the nation’s air travel system is expected to deteriorate. Airlines warn that staffing shortages at the FAA, already forcing widespread delays and cancellations at major airports, will intensify if agencies remain without funding.
Industry leaders are urging the administration to reopen these agencies to restore critical operations and prevent further ripple effects across U.S. hubs, where disruptions at one airport are increasingly cascading into nationwide travel chaos.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, has called for the Chicago mayor and the Illinois governor to be jailed, marking a new escalation in his administration’s attacks and actions against a city under Democratic leadership.
«Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers! Governor Pritzker also!»
As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker push back against the Trump administration’s crime crackdown and immigration raids in Chicago, the president voiced his frustration in a Truth Social post, calling for both leaders to be jailed.
«Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers! Governor Pritzker also!» said the president, accusing the Democratic officials of endangering the lives of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers currently carrying out a major operation in Chicago.
Tensions are rapidly escalating between Trump, the state of Illinois, and the city of Chicago, as both filed lawsuits on Monday to block the president’s deployment of National Guard members to Chicago.
«They are the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of Chicago if they’re not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what the president said they were going to do. They need to get the heck out.»
Over the weekend, the Department of Defense federalized up to 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, in what the DoD has dubbed «Operation Midway Blitz», and also directed 400 federalized Texas National Guard troops to be sent to several Democratic-led cities, many of them headed to Chicago.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker condemned the Trump administration’s actions in Chicago, declaring «They are the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of Chicago if they’re not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what the president said they were going to do. They need to get the heck out.»
A federal lawsuit against the Trump administration
Protests against the Trump administration’s actions, ongoing since mid-September, are rapidly intensifying in Chicago, with clashes erupting between demonstrators, ICE officials, and journalists, particularly outside a migrant holding facility run by ICE and located in the suburb of Broadview.
«There has been an extreme escalation in the use of force by federal agents at that facility against people who are exercising their First Amendment rights, and targeted attacks against members of the press and legal observers.»
In late September, the Department of Homeland Security requested additional support to protect ICE facilities in Illinois as protests against the agency escalated.
On October 7, a coalition of journalists, news organizations, unions, and protesters filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago against the Trump administration, accusing federal agents of using «extreme brutality» during recent demonstrations, including tear gas, pepper balls, and projectiles fired even at credentialed reporters clearly displaying press badges; the plaintiffs argue that these actions, carried out without lawful dispersal orders, violate the First Amendment by attempting to intimidate and silence peaceful dissent, and they are asking the court to affirm both protesters’ right to demonstrate peacefully and journalists’ right to observe, record, and report on federal activities.
«There has been an extreme escalation in the use of force by federal agents at that facility against people who are exercising their First Amendment rights, and targeted attacks against members of the press and legal observers,» said Molly Armour, a volunteer attorney with the National Lawyers Guild in Chicago, who is involved in the case by representing protesters and monitoring abuses.
Trump rhetoric against his political opponents
Trump is now accusing the governor and the mayor of endangering the lives of ICE agents, using a social media post to demand that they be jailed, a stark move that fuels fears his rhetoric against political opponents is increasingly translating into action.
He has made similar calls in the past, including against former FBI Director James Comey, one of his outspoken critics, who was later indicted on what many have described as bogus charges brought by the administration.