The Democratic-led US state of Illinois filed suit on Monday to block President Donald Trump's deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago.
The lawsuit comes one day after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the Republican president from sending soldiers to the state's biggest city Portland as part of his crackdown on crime and undocumented migrants.
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