Kat Lonsdorf
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695 appearances
75 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Aug
Kat Lonsdorf’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's according to a U.S.
official not authorized to speak publicly.
The official says Guard members may also go on missions with immigration officials for protection, although the troops do not have the power to arrest.
None of the Illinois National Guard has mobilized yet, although 300 have been federalized by Trump against the wishes of Illinois Governor J.B.
Pritzker.
The troop activity comes as federal courtrooms in both Illinois and Oregon heard arguments from state lawyers saying that protests in both places did not justify Trump's deployments.
Both cases have serious implications for the use of the military on U.S.
soil.
Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Washington.
To block the move.
Governor J.B.
Pritzker, a Democrat and a big opponent of Trump, has come out strongly against it.
In a statement, he said, quote, none of this is about fighting crime or making Chicago safer.
And many other local politicians here, you know, Senators, Alderman, have said similar things.
On Memorial Day weekend 2015, the Blanco River in Wimberley, Texas, suddenly rose more than forty feet overnight, wiping out nearly everything in its path.
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Resident Natalie Meeks said it's been hard to watch the news out of Kerr County since it all feels eerily similar.
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She says she and her husband were cleaning up for years.
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Ten years later, they're still rebuilding.
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But she says it's more than just the physical damage.
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It's emotional for a long time.
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