Trump orders Illinois Guard to protect federal immigration officers

President Donald Trump authorized the use of Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal immigration officers and facilities in the Chicago area on Saturday, amid growing clashes between Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and protesters in the city and nearby suburbs. The move prompted a sharp rebuke from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who said he had been given an ultimatum to call up the Guard or the federal government would do so without his consent.

Tensions have escalated in recent weeks around an ICE processing facility in Broadview, about 12 miles west of downtown Chicago, where regular enforcement operations and weekly protests have produced frequent confrontations. Department of Homeland Security officials said Border Patrol agents on patrol were rammed by multiple vehicles, became boxed in, and fired defensive shots after an armed woman they encountered allegedly tried to run them over. The woman, a U.S. citizen, drove herself to a hospital and was treated and released, DHS said. Federal authorities have opened an investigation into the shooting.

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said officers at times faced large, hostile crowds and that federal...