Portland, Trump and ICE
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Oregon and the city of Portland are suing President Donald Trump to block the federal government from deploying hundreds of Oregon National Guard members in an unprecedented crackdown in Oregon’s largest city.
Portland police are monitoring protests downtown and at the ICE facility on Sunday after Oregon sues the Trump Administration over the use of National Guard troops.
Oregon filed a lawsuit Sunday seeking to block President Donald Trump from sending the state’s National Guard into Portland, calling it an unconstitutional abuse of power. Trump said Saturday on social media that he was deploying “all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland.”
After President Trump said he would send troops to Portland, Oregon A.G. Rayfield and Governor Kotek said on Sunday that Trump had invoked Title 10.
President’s threat to send in National Guard and use ‘full force’ against protesters is ‘wholly pretextual,’ officials argue
"Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different," Trump said in a Sunday interview.
Democratic members of Oregon’s congressional delegation slammed federal tactics in the ongoing protests outside the immigration facility in South Portland in a news conference Friday, citing The Oregonian/OregonLive’s coverage of federal officers’ use of force.