Your questions answered: What type of training do National Guard personnel get ahead of deployment in Chicago?
Update: 2025-10-09
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We’ve been getting a lot of questions from you about what type of training the National Guard soldiers get – and what they’re allowed to do while deployed in an American city.
We know guardsmen from Texas have been at a training site in Elwood, Illinois.
In other cities they’ve been stationed around federal buildings.
Here in Illinois that could mean the immigration processing facility in west suburban Broadview where protests have been happening for weeks.
But legal experts say guard soldiers do NOT have the authority to do ordinary law enforcement.
HOST: LANE
We know guardsmen from Texas have been at a training site in Elwood, Illinois.
In other cities they’ve been stationed around federal buildings.
Here in Illinois that could mean the immigration processing facility in west suburban Broadview where protests have been happening for weeks.
But legal experts say guard soldiers do NOT have the authority to do ordinary law enforcement.
HOST: LANE
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