CHICAGO - President Donald Trump has vowed to send the National Guard to Chicago and the first troops could arrive Tuesday.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott posted a picture on social media Monday showing Texas National Guard members boarding a plane but didn’t specify where they were going.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has said some 300 of his state’s guard troops were to be federalized and deployed to the nation’s third-largest city, along with 400 others from Texas.

The arrival of National Guard members would follow a lawsuit Illinois and Chicago filed Monday alleging that Trump's authorization to deploy 300 troops to the Windy City is "unlawful and dangerous." Trump continues to flex federal power and claims the troops are needed to protect federal immigration enforcement efforts an

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