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>> First off tonight, a strike team of federal immigration agents accompanied by National Guard troops or other armed military personnel could hit Chicago streets in just 48 hours.

That's according to Governor JB Pritzker.

It comes as President Donald Trump sent confusing messages about whether he would send the National Guard Chicago over the governor's objections.

>> making a determination now.

Do we go to Chicago or are we doing go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great Governor, Jeff Landry, who watch us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad.

>> Now, despite those comments, Governor JB Pritzker said the arrival of hundreds of federal agents is imminent.

>> What we're hearing is that they'll be assembled ready to go on Friday and that they would begin actions on Saturday.

>> All right.

Our Heather Sharon joins us now with more.

Heather, do we know what these federal agents will be asked to do in Chicago?

We believe that will they will be charged with carrying out in carrying out immigration enforcement operations.

But we don't know where or when or sort of what the scope of those operations will We also don't know whether they will be accompanied by any other federal military personnel because as you heard Governor JB Pritzker weeks into this sort of debate about what the president is doing still is flying blind with very little information and he has acknowledged that that has created a lot of tension in Chicago.

So the governor said yesterday that he believes the Trump administration plans to send Texas National Guard troops to Chicago.

Do we have any more details on We don't.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told me and other reporters that that is incorrect that there is no plan to federalize the Texas National Guard and send it to Illinois.

>> However, today, Governor JB Pritzker said he had his sources.

He believed them to be credible and that Governor Abbott has not been a good friend or a straight shooter with Illinois.

You'll remember he sent.

>> 50,000 migrants from the southern border to Chicago ripping apart the city's social safety net and exacerbating tensions between black and Latino Chicagoans.

Ok?

So one day the president says he's sending in the National Guard the next day.

He says he's considering his options as we heard him say, what does the governor make of these confusing messages coming from the president?

He sort of just threw up his hands and said, look, it's clear that the president wants Governor Pritzker to ask him to send in the National Guard, which would give him the legal authority to do so.

Pritzker says he will refuse.

I think there's also a little bit of the confusion over exactly what we're talking about here.

The president has the right to send federal immigration agents to Chicago.

He has done it before.

He did it in January.

The question is whether those immigration raids will be so much larger than the ones that we saw here in the city in January, whether they touch off an rest and whether that will allow the president the authority or the need to call out the National Guard.

That's the playbook he followed in Los Angeles.

Will he do it in Chicago?

We'll have to wait and Certainly inciting fear in the immigration community.

In the meantime, the governor have any advice for Chicagoans as they brace for the arrival of these agents.

He said to get your iPhone's ready and to be ready to record immigration agents as they operate in Chicago so that he said everybody can see what they're doing on Chicago streets.

The city has also ramped up efforts to educate people about their rights and what they should do when confronted with immigration agents and whether they have to allow them into their home only if they have assigned judicial warrant.

As a reminder tonight and Android phones, you sure those headed thrown.

Stand on top.

Of course.

Thank you.