What the National Guard is doing in Chicago

Members of the Texas National Guard stand guard at an Army Reserve training facility in Elwood, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty Images This week, Texas National Guard troops arrived in Chicago. The deployment was the latest turn in the Trump administration’s efforts to more aggressively marshal boots on the ground to abet its mass deportation efforts in some American cities.  The situation on the ground in Chicago before the arrival of the National Guard was already tense. The mission, which President Donald Trump has named “Operation Midway Blitz,” had US Customs and Border Protection