The State of Illinois and Chicago City Hall sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday, accusing U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of “an organized bombardment” in the guise of immigration enforcement that’s caused “turmoil” and created “a climate of fear.”

“Uniformed, military-trained personnel, carrying semi-automatic firearms and military-grade weaponry, have rampaged for months through Chicago and surrounding areas, lawlessly stopping, interrogating, and arresting residents, and attacking them with chemical weapons,” the lawsuit alleges.

“The occupation of Illinois and Chicago is intended to coerce [Illinois and Chicago] to abandon their policies, which value and respect the state’s immigrants, and devote their resources to further the immigration policies of the current administration,” it says. “Illinois and Chicago have refused to do so.”

But, it adds, “the U.S. Constitution stands as a bulwark against [the Trump administration’s] onslaught against Illinois and Chicago.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit is similar to, but appears to go further than, the lawsuit brought by media, protesters and clergy last fall to challenge the feds’ tactics here. That lawsuit has been handled by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who entered an order restricting the feds’ use of force last fall.

The plaintiffs in that case have sought to have it voluntarily dismissed in what appears to be a strategic move to avoid a skeptical appeals court panel.

However, state lawyers filed a motion Monday seeking to have the new lawsuit assigned to Ellis, given that the litigation would be related.

The legal escalation comes less than a week after immigration agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot a U.S. citizen, Renee Good, in Minneapolis, triggering a new wave of outrage across the country against the Trump administration’s tactics.

Contributing: Tina Sfondeles

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