CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is calling for the National Governors Association to condemn the deployment of troops from the Texas National Guard into the state, and has threatened to withdraw Illinois from the organization if it does not.

On Monday, Pritzker sent a letter to the National Governors Association Chair Kevin Stitt, urging him to denounce a plan to send members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois to assist the Illinois National Guard in defending federal agents conducting immigration enforcement in Chicago.

The Department of War, under the guidance of the Trump White House, called up the national guard units after Department of Homeland Security personnel became involved in confrontations with protesters at a federal facility in Broadview, which has be

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