Judge blocks Trump administration from deploying national guard to Portland | Oregon

A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon, according to court documents.

Donald Trump had announced on September 27 that he would deploy troops in Portland, “authorizing all the force, if necessary”, ignoring the pleas of local officials and the delegation of the State Congress, who suggested that the president was ill -informed or lying on the nature and extent of a single protest outside a federal post of immigration.

A coalition of 17 state mayors had opposed deployment. The Attorner General of Oregon, Dan Rayfield, filed a complaint on Monday against 200 federalized members of the Oregon National Guard.

In the prohibition order published on Saturday, the American district judge Karin Immergut – appointed by Trump – competed in the assertion of Oregon that Trump deployment of federal national troops in Portland would probably ignite rather than calm demonstrations, just like in 2020.

The complainants say that the deployment would violate the American Constitution as well as a federal law which generally prohibits soldiers from being used to enforce national laws.

The austere fracture in the way the two parties described the situation on the ground in Portland was obvious during a court hearing on Friday before Immergut.

The lawyer for the US Ministry of Justice Eric Hamilton said that “vicious and cruel radicals” had besieged the siege of Portland to immigration and customs application (ICE). The decision to send 200 soldiers – only 5% of the number recently sent to respond to Los Angeles demonstrations – has shown reservoir, said Hamilton.

Caroline Turco, Portland representative, said that there had been no violence against ice officers for months and that recent ice demonstrations were “calm” the week preceding the week preceding the city, the city, sometimes presenting less than a dozen demonstrators.

“The president’s perception of what’s going on in Portland is not reality on the ground,” said Turco. “The president’s perception is that it is the Second World War here. The reality is that it is a beautiful city with a sophisticated police force that can manage the situation.”

For years, Trump has promoted an inaccurate account that Portland is a city “ravaged by war”, anarchists engaging in chronic chaos. At the end of September, the president appointed Antifa as a “major terrorist organization”. Antifa, abridged for anti-fascist, is not a centralized organization in the United States but closer to an ideology with a loose network of activists.

“Today’s decision validates what the Oregonians already know: justice has been rendered, and the truth has prevailed,” said Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, after the granting of the non-compliance order. “There is no insurgency in Portland. No threat to national security. No fire, no bombs, no deaths due to civilian troubles. The only threat that we are faced with our democracy – and it is led by President Donald Trump.”

Immergut’s decision in Portland is a backhand for Trump as he seeks to send the military to the cities he describes as without law on the objections of their Democratic leaders.

Trump has deployed or threatened to deploy troops in several American cities, in particular those led by Democrats, notably Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and Memphis. Speaking on Tuesday at American military leaders in Virginia, the president proposed to use cities as a training ground for the armed forces.

Robert Mackey and José Olivares contributed the reports.