{"id":298600,"date":"2025-10-09T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=298600"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:02:01","slug":"ice-raids-in-chicago-spark-protests-national-guard-deployment-and-insurrection-act-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=298600","title":{"rendered":"ICE Raids in Chicago Spark Protests, National Guard Deployment, and Insurrection Act Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched aggressive raids in Chicago targeting undocumented immigrants, resulting in widespread protests, clashes with federal agents, and dozens of arrests as of October 9, 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_2025-10-09_180154549.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_2025-10-09_180154549.png 950w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_2025-10-09_180154549-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_2025-10-09_180154549-768x716.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Illinois Governor JB Pritzker condemned the operations as unconstitutional, filed a lawsuit to block the federalisation of 300 National Guard troops for ICE protection, and challenged President Donald Trump directly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 652 \/ 360;\" width=\"652\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ssstwitter.com_1759993108166.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">COUNTLESS anti-ICE \u201cprotestors\u201d have now taken over the streets of Chicago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military amid escalating tensions and Democratic legal challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military amid escalating tensions and Democratic legal challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":298602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,4387],"tags":[9952,18395,11],"class_list":["post-298600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-protests","tag-chicago","tag-ice-raids","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298606,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298600\/revisions\/298606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}