CHICAGO — Texas National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Tuesday amid mounting judicial scrutiny of the federal government’s aggressive immigration enforcement in the Chicago area.

The escalation of the federal government’s law enforcement presence came the same day a federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated a federal consent decree when arresting 22 undocumented immigrants without warrants earlier this year.

That ruling came a day before a federal grand jury took the rare step of declining to indict two protestors that federal prosecutors had charged with resisting and assaulting federal officers.

And it came the same day a federal judge released two individuals — one of whom was shot by ICE — as they await trial for allegedly assaulting officers. In the hearing that

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