National guard begins Memphis patrols as senators in Illinois are turned away from Ice facility

Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth decry ‘stonewalling’ by Trump administration as Tennesseans pose with military

As national guard troops patrolled in Memphis – Tennessee’s second-largest city – for the first time on Friday, Democratic US senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth said they had been barred from visiting an immigration enforcement building near Chicago.

The senators stopped by the facility in suburban Broadview on Friday, requesting a tour of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility and to deliver supplies to protesters who have been demonstrating at the site for weeks.