Trump federalizes the National Guard in Chicago, while troops arrive in Oregon : NPR
Federal officials of law application and the police are trying to maintain the demonstrators outside an immigration and customs application center in the United States in Portland, Oregon on Saturday. The Oregon governor said that members of the California National Guard had arrived in Oregon.
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Portland and Chicago are preparing for the possibility that members of the National Guard will be deployed in their streets, while President Trump is advancing with his plan to send troops to American cities managed by Democrats who, according to him, require aid to control crime and protect federal law enforcement agents.
On Saturday, the White House said that Trump had “authorized” the deployment of 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, after promising for weeks to send federal forces to Chicago. Also during the weekend, an Oregon judge temporarily blocked the administration’s plan to deploy the Oregon National Guard in Portland, although the troops arrived in California.
The members of the guard will be used to protect federal goods as well as agents of federal services and federal protection services and other federal employees, according to a copy of a federal note consulted by NPR. They will be sent to places where there are “violent demonstrations” in the state or where they are likely to occur according to “assessments of current threats,” said the memo.
Already this year, the Trump administration sent members of the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, DC Trump said that he also intended to send troops to Memphis with the support of the Republican Governor of Tennessee Bill Lee.
The new deployment effort is against the wishes of democratic governors of Oregon and Illinois, Tina Kotek and JB Pritzker, who say that the deployment of the guard is not necessary and will deduce tensions.
On Saturday, Pritzker wrote in an article on X that the “Department of War of the Trump administration gave me an ultimatum: call your troops, or we will do it”. Pritzker added: “It is absolutely scandalous and non -American to demand that a governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”
In a statement, the White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said Trump had activated the troops “[a]In the midst of the violent riots in progress and anarchy “in Chicago to” protect officers and federal assets, “Trump said that the deployments of the National Guard were in an effort to fight crime, despite violent crimes in Chicago and other cities.
On Saturday, the border patrol agents shot a woman in Chicago. Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security, said that the woman was part of a group of drivers who had struck federal agents with their vehicles. The woman, Marimar Martinez, has been released from the hospital and is now under the custody of the FBI, said DHS in a statement. No agent was seriously injured, according to McLaughlin.
A judge blocks Trump’s efforts in Portland, but the members of the guard arrive from California
Also on Saturday, a federal judge temporarily prevented the Trump administration from deploying the Oregon National Guard.
US District Judge Karin J. Imgergut ruled that the government had not reached the threshold to declare that recent demonstrations outside an ice center in Portland constituted a rebellion.
IMMERGUT, which was appointed by Trump in 2019, said that demonstrations in the establishment since July were generally limited to less than 30 people and were “largely calm”. She added that the city’s police forces were trained in the management of crowds and could request the help of other law enforcement organizations – and even the National Guard – if it needed.
The Trump Administration has federally 200 members of the Oregon National Guard last Sunday for a deployment of 60 days, according to a service note sent to Governor Kotek of the Ministry of Defense.
As in Chicago, Trump planned to send the troops to Portland for the objections of state leaders and local leaders.
Trump said on Sunday that he had not seen the judge’s order, but that “this judge should be ashamed of themselves”.
Despite the judge’s decision, the members of the guard were on the way to Oregon, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom. He declared in an article on X that the Trump administration had sent 300 members of the California National Guard staff to the neighbor of the northern state.
“They are on their way now,” said Newsom. “We bring this fight before the courts. The public cannot remain silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.”
Kotek said on Sunday that 101 members of California Guard arrived in Oregon on Saturday and that others were on the way. “This action seems [be] Intentional to bypass yesterday’s decision by a federal judge, “she said in a statement.
Gigi Douban and Tom Bowman contributed to the reports.
