Pritzker, a Democrat, criticized the move and referred to it as “Trump’s invasion,” following an earlier mobilization of 300 California National Guard members to Portland, Oregon.
That city has seen more than 100 consecutive days of unrest outside an immigration detention center, a situation similar to protests that have gripped Chicago since early September
The Illinois governor said his administration was not consulted before the announcement and denounced the deployment as overreach.
“We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion,” Pritzker said in a post on X.
The decision follows weeks of unrest tied to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” an ongoing enforcement initiative launched last month targeting criminal illegal aliens in the Chicago area.
Federal officials have said the operation focuses on identifying and arresting individuals who relocated to Illinois to take advantage of the state’s sanctuary policies.
Local leaders, including Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, have publicly opposed the enforcement effort.
Despite their objections, protests have grown more violent, with demonstrators using vehicles to ram federal agents and block ICE operations.
The Department of Homeland Security reported that two such vehicular attacks occurred earlier in the week in the Chicago area.
On Saturday, U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling Chicago’s South Side shot and wounded a woman who was armed during what officials described as a coordinated mob attack.
The confrontation took place approximately 15 miles from an ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois — an area that has become a focal point for anti-ICE demonstrations.
Since Friday, more than a dozen protesters have been arrested near the Broadview facility, according to reports from Fox News.
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