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Illinois has filed a federal lawsuit to stop President Trump from deploying National Guard troops, including members from Texas, to Chicago.

President Trump and the White House are citing high crime in the city and say the troops are needed to protect federal property and employees.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker calls the deployment an "unconstitutional invasion by the federal government" and a political stunt.

Guard troops have already been deployed to other Democrat-run cities like Memphis and Washington, D.C., but a judge has blocked a deployment to Portland, Oregon.

Illinois is the latest state to file a federal lawsuit to try to stop President Donald Trump from sending in National Guard troops to Democrat-led cities.

That lawsuit calls the deployment of the troops, inc

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