CHICAGO — Officials in Illinois and Oregon stepped up efforts to block President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in the states’ cities, denouncing the effort as an attempted “invasion,” even as 200 soldiers from Texas were headed to Chicago.

The state of Illinois sued Trump on Monday over his effort to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, calling the deployment “illegal, dangerous and unconstitutional.” The state and the city of Chicago filed the lawsuit hours after the president ordered hundreds of Texas Guard soldiers to deploy for “federal protection missions” in Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

On Sunday night, a federal judge blocked Trump from sending guard members from any state to Oregon, but her ruling did not cover Illinois. In its lawsuit, officials from Ill

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