The TOI correspondent from Washington : In echoes of the 1861 Civil War, alarming talk of Texas invading Illinois erupted across America as a complement of 400 troops from the National Guard flew out of Fort Bliss in El Paso on a US military transport plane on Monday evening for deployment in Chicago against the wishes of the state’s Democratic leaders and local officials. Texas governor Greg Abbott posted a photo of troops boarding a C-17 Globemaster III military aircraft with the caption “Ever ready. Deploying now,” as partisans on both sides of the political and ideological divide accused each other of inciting a civil war, invoking the 1861 clash when an estimated 750,000 people died to forge what was supposed to be a more perfect union. Instead, political pundits fear old wounds

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