Members of the Texas National Guard have been spotted at an Army Reserve center in Elwood, Illinois, about 55 miles away from Chicago.

The soldiers were getting settled there after President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago and to other Democrat-led cities.

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Their deployment comes despite resistance from Illinois’s and Chicago’s elected leaders.

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) says he didn’t get an advance warning about the troop deployment and that Trump is using the soldiers as “pawns.”

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