US insurrection act: Trump mulls invoking law to use troops as police

President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, the federal law dating back to 1807, if courts or state officials delay his plans to deploy soldiers to US cities in support of his anti-immigration crackdown. The threat came as his efforts to deploy the National Guard in Portland, Oregon, were temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Monday, and the Democratic governor of Illinois dubbed troop deployment to the state capital, Chicago, an “invasion”. Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Broadview in Illinois. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #USInsurrectionAct #Trump #NationalGuard #USCities #PortlandOregon #ChicagoTroops #USPolitics #ImmigrationCrackdown #TrumpTroopThreat #FederalLaw #AlJazeeraEnglish