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Trump authorizes national guard deployment to Chicago, White House says, as border patrol there shoots woman

A masked border patrol agent in combat garb.
A US border patrol agent in suburban Chicago on Friday. Photograph: Tom Hudson/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Donald Trump has moved to deploy the national guard in another city by authorizing 300 troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago, where the government said border patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at someone who tried to run them over.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson confirmed that the president had authorized using Illinois national guard members, citing what she called “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness” that local leaders have not quelled.

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