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President Trump has ordered National Guard troops into two more American cities — Portland, Oregon, and Chicago. Ash-har Quraishi and Adam Yamaguchi report.
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Oregon county DA drops charges against conservative journalist after Portland arrest
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Oregon officials declined to pursue charges against conservative journalist Nick Sortor on Monday after his arrest in Portland during a chaotic protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.
Sortor was captured on video being taken into custody on Thursday and was initially charged with second-degree disorderly conduct. He was later released, but his arrest quickly went viral after he claimed he was detained following a confrontation with two Antifa-affiliated individuals.
However, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office has since reversed course, issuing a statement dropping charges against Sortor due to insufficient evidence that a crime was committed.
PORTLAND POLICE SERGEANT APPEARS TO CRITICIZE ASSAULT VICTIMS FOR ANTAGONIZING ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS
Conservative journalist Nick Sortor, left, was arrested on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, during protests outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. On the right are two men who were seen fighting near the facility. (X/@yogashortsss; X/@KatieDaviscourt)
“After a careful review of the investigation, including reports and video, we do not believe the crime of Disorderly Conduct can be proven against Mr. Sortor beyond a reasonable doubt,” the press release said. “The two other individuals arrested for Disorderly Conduct October 2nd have been charged.”
The statement continued, “We greatly appreciate the efforts of the Portland Police Bureau to manage the situation near the ICE building during this time of political unrest. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office remains committed to a fair and impartial administration of justice.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Portland Police Bureau Chief Bob Day celebrated the decision and the District Attorney’s Office review.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PROBES PORTLAND POLICE BUREAU AFTER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BIAS CLAIMS
Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol, and the police, attempt to keep protesters back outside a downtown U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on October 05, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
“I want to thank the District Attorney’s Office for their thorough review of this case. Since June 8, 2025, we have made 36 arrests in the area near the ICE facility. We remain focused on ensuring a safe environment for everyone in the South Waterfront,” Day said. “Our enforcement actions are guided solely by law and probable cause, not by politics or personal characteristics. We are committed to upholding the rule of law equally and fairly, regardless of political affiliation, gender, age, race, or economic status.”
He added, “We will continue our efforts in the South Waterfront to investigate crimes, make arrests when warranted, and refer cases involving criminal behavior to the District Attorney’s Office.”
Portland, Oregon has been the site of several chaotic ICE-related protests. (X/@KatieDaviscourt)
Though Sortor called the announcement a “victory” on X, he hinted at further legal action.
“I will still be appearing in court at the Portland Justice Center at 2pm PT to finalize this. And trust me, this is ONLY the beginning,” Sortor wrote.
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Trump slams judge he picked as court tests limits of president’s power to deploy troops
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President Trump has often locked horns with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, with the once left-leaning court putting a persistent drag on his first-term agenda.
And now, even after remaking the bench with his own appointees, the president is still tangling with the West Coast’s federal appellate court — a situation poised to boil over as the circuit juggles multiple challenges to his use of the National Guard to police American streets.
“I appointed the judge and he goes like that — I wasn’t served well,” Trump told reporters Sunday, lashing out at U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut of Portland after she temporarily blocked the deployment of federalized troops.
“To have a judge like that, that judge ought to be ashamed of himself,” Trump said, referring to Immergut, who is a woman.
The president has long railed against judges who rule against him, calling them “monsters,” “deranged,” and “radical” at various points in the past.
Trump has also occasionally sniped at conservative jurists, including U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, whom he called “disgraceful” after the court rejected his bid to overturn the 2020 election.
But this weekend’s spat marked a shift in his willingness to go after his own appointees — a turn experts say could become much sharper as his picks to the appellate bench test his ambition to put boots on the ground in major cities across the U.S.
“The fact that a pretty conservative judge ruled the way she did is an indication that some conservative judges would rule similarly,” said Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University and a constitutional scholar at the Cato Institute.
The 9th Circuit handed the administration an early victory in the troop fight this spring, finding that courts must give “a great level of deference” to the president to decide whether facts on the ground warrant military intervention.
That ruling is set to be reviewed by a larger appellate panel, and could ultimately be reversed. The circuit is also now set to review a September decision barring federalized troops in California from aiding in civilian law enforcement, as well as Immergut’s temporary restraining order blocking the deployment over the weekend.
In the meantime, the 9th Circuit’s June decision has served as a guidepost for states seeking to limit what Oregon called a “nationwide campaign to assimilate the military into civilian law enforcement.”
“That decision is binding, and it does require a substantial degree of deference on the factual issues,” Somin said. “[But] when what the president does is totally divorced from reality, that limit is breached.”
Immergut appeared to agree, saying in her ruling that circumstances in Portland this fall were significantly different than those in L.A. in the spring. While some earlier protests did turn violent, she wrote, recent pickets outside Portland’s ICE headquarters have featured lawn chairs and low energy.
“Violence elsewhere cannot support troop deployments here, and concern about hypothetical future conduct does not demonstrate a present inability to execute the laws using nonmilitary federal law enforcement,” the judge wrote, addressing the 9th Circuit decision.
“The President is certainly entitled ‘a great level of deference,’” Immergut continued. “But ‘a great level of deference’ is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground. … The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”
But exactly where the appellate court may draw the line on presidential fact-finding is tricky, experts said.
“How much deference is owed to the president? That’s something we’re all talking about,” said John C. Dehn, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Whether courts can review the president’s judgment at all is a matter that splits even some of the president’s most conservative judicial picks from his current Justice Department attorneys.
So far, Trump has relied on an esoteric subsection of the U.S. Code for the authority to send soldiers on immigration raids and to control crowds of protesters.
Dehn and others have characterized that reading of the code as semantic and divorced from its legal context.
“They’re looking at the words in a vacuum and arguing the broadest possible meaning they can think of,” Dehn said. “The administration is not engaged in good faith statutory interpretation — they’re engaged in linguistic manipulation of these statutes.”
Immegur agreed, quoting Supreme Court precedent saying “[i]nterpretation of a word or phrase depends upon reading the whole statutory text.”
For some conservative legal scholars, Trump appointees’ willingness to push back on repeated deployments could signal a limit — or a dangerous new escalation in the administration’s attacks on jurists who defy them.
“It’s obvious the administration is trying to do this on a bigger scale,” Somin said. “Ideally we would not rely on litigation alone to deal with it.”
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Stephen Miller leads GOP charge equating Democrats to ‘domestic terrorists’
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WASHINGTON — President Trump rocked American politics at the outset of his first campaign when he first labeled his rivals as enemies of the American people. But the rhetoric of his top confidantes has grown more extreme in recent days.
Stephen Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff, declared over the weekend that “a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country” is fueling an historic national schism, “shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general.”
“The only remedy,” Miller said, “is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.”
It was a maxim from an unelected presidential advisor who is already unleashing the federal government in unprecedented ways, overseeing the federalization of police forces and a sweeping deportation campaign challenging basic tenets of civil liberty.
Miller’s rhetoric comes amid a federal crackdown on Portland, Ore., where he says the president has unchecked authority to protect federal lives and property — and as another controversial Trump advisor harnesses an ongoing government shutdown as pretext for the mass firing of federal workers.
Russ Vought, the president’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, plays the grim reaper in an AI video shared by the president, featuring him roving Washington for bureaucrats to cut from the deep state during the shutdown.
His goal, Trump has said, is to specifically target Democrats.
As of Monday afternoon, it was unclear exactly how many federal workers or what federal agencies would be targeted.
“We don’t want to see people laid off, but unfortunately, if this shutdown continues layoffs are going to be an unfortunate consequence of that,” White House press secretary Karoline Levitt said during a news briefing.
‘A nation of Constitutional law’
Karin Immergut, a federal judge appointed by Trump, said this weekend that the administration’s justification for deploying California National Guard troops in Portland was “simply untethered to the facts.”
“This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs,” Immergut wrote, chiding the Trump administration for attempting to circumvent a prior order from her against a federal deployment to the city.
“This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition,” she added: “This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”
The administration is expected to appeal the judge’s decision, Leavitt said, while calling the judge’s ruling “untethered in reality and in the law.”
“We’re very confident in the president’s legal authority to do this, and we are very confident we will win on the merits of the law,” Leavitt said.
If the courts were to side with the administration, Leavitt said local leaders — most of whom are Democrats — should not be concerned about the possibility of long-term plans to have their cities occupied by the military.
“Why should they be concerned about the federal government offering help to make their cities a safer place?” Leavitt said. “They should be concerned about the fact that people in their cities right now are being gunned down every single night and the president, all he is trying to do, is fix it.”
Moments later, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he does not believe it is necessary yet, he would be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act “if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up.”
“Sure, I’d do that,” Trump said. “We have to make sure that our cities are safe.”
The Insurrection Act gives the president sweeping emergency power to deploy military forces within the United States if the president deems it is needed to quell civil unrest. The last time this occurred was in 1992, when California Gov. Pete Wilson asked President George H.W. Bush to send federal troops to help stop the Los Angeles riots that occurred after police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.
Subsequent posts from Miller on social media over the weekend escalated the stakes to existential heights, accusing Democrats of allying themselves with “domestic terrorists” seeking to overturn the will of the people reflected in Trump’s election win last year.
On Monday, in an interview with CNN, Miller suggested that the administration would continue working to sidestep Immergut’s orders.
“The administration will abide by the ruling insofar as it affects the covered parties,” he said, “but there are also many options the president has to deploy federal resources under the U.S. military to Portland.”
Other Republicans have used similar rhetoric since the slaying of Charlie Kirk, a conservative youth activist, in Utah last month.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) wrote that posts from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office have reached “the threshold of domestic terrorism,” after the Democratic governor referred to Miller on social media as a fascist. And Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) said Monday that Democrats demanding an extension of healthcare benefits as a condition for reopening the government were equivalent to terrorists.
“I don’t negotiate with terrorists,” Fine told Newsmax, “and what we’re learned in whether it’s dealing with Muslim terrorists or Democrats, you’ve gotta stand and you’ve gotta do the right thing.”
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Republicans’ keenness to label Democrats as terrorists comes two weeks after Trump signed an executive order declaring a left-wing antifascist movement, known as antifa, as a “domestic terrorist organization” — a designation that does not exist under U.S. law.
The order, which opened a new front in Trump’s battle against his political foes, also threatened to investigate and prosecute individuals who funded “any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of antifa.”
Leavitt told reporters Monday the administration is “aggressively” looking into who is financially backing these operations.
Trump has floated the possibility of going after people such as George Soros, a billionaire who has supported many left-leaning causes around the world.
“If you look at Soros, he is at the top of everything,” Trump said during an Oval Office appearance last month.
The White House has not yet made public any details about a formal investigation into a donors, but Leavitt said the administration’s efforts are under way.
“We will continue to get to the bottom of who is funding these organizations and this organized anarchy against our country and our government,” Leavitt said. “We are committed to uncovering it.”
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Illinois and Chicago sue Trump administration over deployment of National Guard
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(CNN) — The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as the White House targets Democrat-led cities amid weeks of protests against the federal government’s immigration enforcement campaign.
The lawsuit opens a new front in the legal battles the White House is waging against state and local officials, coming just hours after a federal judge blocked a similar deployment of the guard to Portland, Oregon.
“Defendants’ deployment of federalized troops to Illinois is patently unlawful,” the lawsuit says. “Plaintiffs ask this court to halt the illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional federalization of members of the National Guard of the United States, including both the Illinois and Texas National Guard.”
The lawsuit comes two days after the White House announced President Donald Trump authorized sending 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to Chicago to “protect federal officers and assets,” reprising a strategy he first used against anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests in Los Angeles and Washington, DC.
News of the deployment was condemned by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who said he refused to call up the National Guard after the Trump administration demanded he do so. On Sunday – after learning the administration also planned to send 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois and Oregon, among other places – Pritzker likened the move to an “invasion.”
The lawsuit asks the court to order the administration to stop federalizing or deploying any National Guard troops to Illinois, and to declare the federalization of National Guard troops more broadly as unlawful. Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among the defendants named.
In a statement, a White House spokesperson said the president “will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities.”
“Amidst ongoing violent riots and lawlessness, that local leaders like Pritzker have refused to step in to quell, President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to protect federal officers and assets,” spokesperson Abigail Jackson told CNN.
The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, argued the deployments are politically motivated, claiming Trump has a long history of making “threatening and derogatory” comments about Chicago and the state of Illinois, dating to at least 2013.
Among other examples, it calls out a September 6 social media post by Trump in which he said Chicago would “find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” referring to the president’s rebranded name for the Pentagon.
Illinois and Chicago have already seen a “surge” of federal agents, some of whom have responded to demonstrations at an ICE facility in Broadview, near Chicago, the lawsuit says. Those protests are a “flimsy pretext” to deploy National Guardsmen to the state, the lawsuit says.
Instead, “Defendants’ provocative and arbitrary actions have threatened to undermine public safety by inciting a public outcry,” the lawsuit says, because local and state law enforcement have been sent to “maintain the peace” in Broadview while ICE continues operating the facility.
“There is no legal or factual justification” for the National Guard federalization order, the lawsuit says.
Illinois’ complaint follows a similar challenge to the administration’s move to assign federalized guard troops from Oregon and California to Portland.
Officials in both states had objected, and a Trump-appointed federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the deployment of National Guard from anywhere in the US to Portland.
The president, the judge said, appeared to have “exceeded his constitutional authority” by federalizing troops, because protests in Portland “did not pose a ‘danger of rebellion.’”
This story has been updated with additional information.
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Federal judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland amid constitutional challenge
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A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops into Portland in a late-night decision on Sunday.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled the action was unlawful and unconstitutional, issuing an emergency temporary restraining order to halt the deployment of California’s National Guard. The order also bars the use of troops from any other state or Washington, D.C. in Oregon.
Immergut’s ruling says that the Trump administration’s action violates federal statute 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment.
“It appears to violate both 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment,” Immergut said during the proceeding, according to reporting from Adam Klasfeld of AllRise News.
NEWSOM SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT ORDER TO OREGON
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, ruling the action unconstitutional. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Immergut also pressed Justice Department attorney Eric Hamilton on why the DOJ continued to pursue troop movements.
“How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention of the TRO that I issued yesterday?” she asked.
“You’re an officer of the court. Aren’t defendants circumventing my order?”Hamilton went on to deny any wrongdoing but did offer a defense to which Immergut pushed back.
“You have to have a colorable claim that Oregon conditions warrant deploying the National Guard — you don’t.”
Law enforcement officers stand in tear gas outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility during a protest on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Oregon’s Scott Kennedy said it felt like “a game of rhetorical Whac-A-Mole” and referenced reports that Trump may be considering sending Texas National Guard troops to Chicago.
DOJ representatives requested a stay, but Immergut denied both the stay and the administrative delay, saying it was an “emergency” and there were no new facts to justify the request to change her previous ruling.
“I’m handling this on an emergency basis with limited briefing,” she said. “No new information has been provided about any new issues in Portland.”
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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted an emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) immediately took to X to boast.
“BREAKING: We just won in court — again. A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND. The court granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order — HALTING ANY FEDERALIZATION, RELOCATION, OR DEPLOYMENT of ANY GUARD MEMBERS TO OREGON FROM ANY STATE. Trump’s abuse of power won’t stand,” the post stated.
The Justice Department has made indications that it will be appealing the ruling with arguments that the president retains authority under federal law to deploy National Guard forces in cases of “domestic unrest.”
Fox News’ Lee Ross contributed to this report.
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President Trump is sending 300 Cal Guard to Oregon and Newsom says he’ll sue
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Governor Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Portland, Oregon, after a federal district court blocked the attempted federalization of Oregon’s National Guard:“In response to a federal court order that blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, President Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now. This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power. The Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words — ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political opponents.This isn’t about public safety, it’s about power. The commander-in-chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens. We will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.” —Governor Gavin NewsomTrump illegally sends California troops to OregonDespite a federal court order finding no legal basis to deploy state National Guard troops to the streets of Portland and ordering that control of the Oregon National Guard be returned to state command, the Trump Administration is now sending 300 federally controlled members of the California National Guard to Portland to take their place. The troops had originally been federalized months ago in response to unrest in Los Angeles — conditions that never necessitated their deployment in the first place, and have long since subsided anyway. Courts rebuke Trump’s lawlessnessIn its ruling yesterday, the federal judge appointed by President Trump rejected the Trump Administration’s justification for deploying federalized troops, writing in its order: “This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation.”The court found that the President’s own statements regarding the deployment of federalized National Guard were not “conceived in good faith” and were “simply untethered to the facts.”
Governor Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Portland, Oregon, after a federal district court blocked the attempted federalization of Oregon’s National Guard:
“In response to a federal court order that blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, President Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now. This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power. The Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words — ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political opponents.
This isn’t about public safety, it’s about power. The commander-in-chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens. We will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.” —Governor Gavin Newsom
Trump illegally sends California troops to Oregon
Despite a federal court order finding no legal basis to deploy state National Guard troops to the streets of Portland and ordering that control of the Oregon National Guard be returned to state command, the Trump Administration is now sending 300 federally controlled members of the California National Guard to Portland to take their place. The troops had originally been federalized months ago in response to unrest in Los Angeles — conditions that never necessitated their deployment in the first place, and have long since subsided anyway.
Courts rebuke Trump’s lawlessness
In its ruling yesterday, the federal judge appointed by President Trump rejected the Trump Administration’s justification for deploying federalized troops, writing in its order:
“This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation.”
The court found that the President’s own statements regarding the deployment of federalized National Guard were not “conceived in good faith” and were “simply untethered to the facts.”
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Oregon judge temporarily blocks deployment of the National Guard to Portland
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A federal judge in Oregon has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from sending the National Guard to Portland after the president said he would send troops to the city to handle “domestic terrorists.”
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued the temporary restraining order, which is set to expire on Oct. 18, according to court records.
The plaintiffs say a deployment would violate the U.S. Constitution as well as a federal law that generally prohibits the military from being used to enforce domestic laws.
Immergut wrote that the case involves the intersection of three fundamental democratic principles: “the relationship between the federal government and the states, between the military and domestic law enforcement, and the balance of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States,” she wrote.
Generally speaking the president is allowed “a great level of deference” to federalize National Guard troops in situations where regular law enforcement forces are not able to execute the laws of the United States, the judge said.
However, she concluded that in the situation in Portland, the president “did not have a ‘colorable basis’ to invoke § 12406(3) to federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal law enforcement officers to execute federal law.”
Plaintiffs were able to show that the demonstrations at the Portland immigration facility were not significantly violent or disruptive in the days or weeks leading up to the president’s order, the judge wrote, and “overall, the protests were small and uneventful.”
The judge added that, “The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”
The Defense Department had said it was placing 200 members of Oregon’s National Guard under federal control for 60 days to protect federal property and personnel at locations where protests are occurring or likely to occur after Trump called the city “war-ravaged.”
The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration last Sunday following the president’s announcement that he would send troops to Portland. The lawsuit argued that Mr. Trump lacks the authority to federalize the National Guard.
Following the ruling, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson indicated an appeal was likely, saying in a statement that “President Trump exercised his lawful authority to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland following violent riots and attacks on law enforcement — we expect to be vindicated by a higher court.”
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield called the ruling “a healthy check on the president.”
“It reaffirms what we already knew: Portland is not the president’s war-torn fantasy. Our city is not ravaged, and there is no rebellion,” Rayfield said in a statement. He added: “Members of the Oregon National Guard are not a tool for him to use in his political theater.”
“Today’s outcome is proof that Portlanders’ commitment to peaceful expression and civic unity truly matters,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement Saturday following the ruling. “We have not met aggression with aggression. We’ve stood firm, calm and grounded in our shared values and that is why this decision went our way. Portland has shown that peace is power.”
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has pushed back on Mr. Trump’s plans to send troops to Portland and told reporters at a news conference last week that the city “is a far cry from the war-ravaged community he has posted on social media.”
Earlier in September, Mr. Trump had described living in Portland as “like living in hell.”
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland has been the site of nightly protests, and the demonstrations and occasional clashes with law enforcement. A handful of immigration and legal advocates often gather at the building during the day. At night, recent protests have typically drawn a couple dozen people.
The order Saturday comes after a broader effort from the administration in what Mr. Trump has characterized as a crackdown on crime in Democratic-led cities.
Mr. Trump deployed the National Guard and active-duty Marines to Los Angeles over the summer and as part of his law enforcement takeover in the District of Columbia.
On Saturday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said that the Trump administration intends to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard members after he was offered an ultimatum to deploy the troops himself but refused.
Last month, Mr. Trump signed a presidential memorandum mobilizing federal law enforcement agents to Memphis, Tennessee, at the request of the Tennessee governor.
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Trump plans to deploy National Guard in Illinois, governor says
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The Trump administration plans to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said Saturday.Related video above: “Full force, if necessary:” Why President Trump is sending troops to Portland, OregonPritzker said the guard received word from the Pentagon in the morning that the troops would be called up. He did not specify when or where they would be deployed, but President Donald Trump has long threatened to send troops to Chicago.“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” Pritzker said in a statement. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for additional details. The White House and the Pentagon did not respond to questions about Pritzker’s statement.The escalation of federal law enforcement in Illinois follows similar deployments in other parts of the country. Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles over the summer and as part of his law enforcement takeover in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile Tennessee National Guard troops are expected to help Memphis police.California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued to stop the deployment in Los Angeles and won a temporary block in federal court. The Trump administration has appealed that ruling that the use of the guard was illegal, and a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has indicated that it believes the government is likely to prevail.Pritzker called Trump’s move in Illinois a “manufactured performance” that would pull the state’s National Guard troops away from their families and regular jobs.“For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control,” said the governor, who also noted that state, county and local law enforcement have been coordinating to ensure the safety of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Broadview facility on the outskirts of Chicago.Federal officials reported the arrests of 13 people protesting Friday near the facility, which has been frequently targeted during the administration’s surge of immigration enforcement this fall.Trump also said last month that he was sending federal troops to Portland, Oregon, calling the city war-ravaged. But local officials have suggested that many of his claims and social media posts appear to rely on images from 2020, when demonstrations and unrest gripped the city following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.City and state officials sued to stop the deployment the next day. U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut heard arguments Friday, and a ruling is expected over the weekend.Trump has federalized 200 National Guard troops in Oregon, but so far it does not appear that they have moved into Portland. They have been seen training on the coast in anticipation of a deployment. Associated Press reporter Rebecca Boone contributed.
The Trump administration plans to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said Saturday.
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Pritzker said the guard received word from the Pentagon in the morning that the troops would be called up. He did not specify when or where they would be deployed, but President Donald Trump has long threatened to send troops to Chicago.
“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” Pritzker said in a statement. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for additional details. The White House and the Pentagon did not respond to questions about Pritzker’s statement.
The escalation of federal law enforcement in Illinois follows similar deployments in other parts of the country. Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles over the summer and as part of his law enforcement takeover in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile Tennessee National Guard troops are expected to help Memphis police.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued to stop the deployment in Los Angeles and won a temporary block in federal court. The Trump administration has appealed that ruling that the use of the guard was illegal, and a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has indicated that it believes the government is likely to prevail.
Pritzker called Trump’s move in Illinois a “manufactured performance” that would pull the state’s National Guard troops away from their families and regular jobs.
“For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control,” said the governor, who also noted that state, county and local law enforcement have been coordinating to ensure the safety of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Broadview facility on the outskirts of Chicago.
Federal officials reported the arrests of 13 people protesting Friday near the facility, which has been frequently targeted during the administration’s surge of immigration enforcement this fall.
Trump also said last month that he was sending federal troops to Portland, Oregon, calling the city war-ravaged. But local officials have suggested that many of his claims and social media posts appear to rely on images from 2020, when demonstrations and unrest gripped the city following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
City and state officials sued to stop the deployment the next day. U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut heard arguments Friday, and a ruling is expected over the weekend.
Trump has federalized 200 National Guard troops in Oregon, but so far it does not appear that they have moved into Portland. They have been seen training on the coast in anticipation of a deployment.
Associated Press reporter Rebecca Boone contributed.
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Portland Braces For Federal Troops As Protests Escalate And A Conservative Influencer Is Arrested – KXL
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for its history of civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal troops being deployed by President Donald Trump.
Months of demonstrations outside Portland’s immigration detention facility have escalated since Trump said last week he was sending federal troops to the city, which he described as “War ravaged.” Police made a few arrests late Thursday after fights broke out in the crowd, including of conservative influencer Nick Sortor on a disorderly conduct charge.
On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the agency would send additional federal agents and the Justice Department was launching a civil rights investigation into the circumstances surrounding Sortor’s arrest, and whether the Portland Police Bureau engages in viewpoint discrimination.
City leaders adamantly deny any such discrimination and said they don’t need the National Guard to help handle the single block outside the ICE facility where the protests have occurred.
“Last night, the arrests that we made, we made based upon probable cause, not based upon individuals,” Police Chief Bob Day told a news conference Friday. “There is no political bias associated with our enforcement.”
Meanwhile, a federal judge heard arguments — but did not immediately rule — on whether to temporarily block Trump’s call-up of 200 Oregon National Guard members, which the administration said is needed to protect the ICE facility and other federal buildings.
The escalation of federal law enforcement in Portland, population 636,000 and Oregon’s largest city, follows similar crackdowns to combat crime in other cities, including Chicago, Baltimore and Memphis. He deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles over the summer and as part of his law enforcement takeover in Washington, D.C.
A conservative influencer arrested in Portland
Sortor, 27, who’s a regular guest on Fox News and whose X profile has more than 1 million followers, was arrested Thursday night with two other people outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said it was reviewing the case and would make a decision on whether to proceed with charges before Sortor’s arraignment Monday.What led to the arrests was not immediately clear. Portland police said in a news release that officers observed two men fighting and one of the men was knocked to the ground. Neither of the men wanted to file a police report. Police moved in about three hours later, as fights continued to break out, and arrested Sorter and two others.
All three were charged with second-degree disorderly conduct. Sorter was released Friday on his own recognizance, according to Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office’s online records. An email seeking comment from Sortor sent Friday went unanswered and no one answered phone numbers listed for him.
In a post on X on Friday morning, Sortor said his arrest proved that Portland Police are corrupt and controlled by “vioIent Antifa thugs who terrorize the streets.”
A history of Portland protests led to this moment
Portland famously erupted in more than 100 days of sustained, nightly protests in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter movement. In his first term, Trump sent federal law enforcement to the city to protect the U.S. District Courthouse in the heart of Portland after protests attracted thousands of people following George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police.The presence of the federal agents further inflamed the situation, with federal officers repeatedly firing rubber bullets and teargassing protestors. Viral videos captured militarized federal officers, often unidentified, arresting people and hustling them into unmarked vehicles.
At the same time, Portland police were unable to keep ahead of splinter groups of black-clad protesters who broke off and roamed the downtown area, at times breaking windows, spraying graffiti and setting small fires in moments that were also captured on video and shared widely on social media.
A report by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found that while the federal government had legal authority to deploy the officers, many of them lacked the training and equipment needed to carry out the mission.
The tensions reached a peak in September 2020 when a self-identified member of the far-left anti-fascist movement fatally shot 39-year-old Aaron “Jay” Danielson in the chest. Danielson and a friend were seen heading downtown to protect a flag-waving caravan of Trump supporters shortly before the shooting.
The shooter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, was himself later shot and killed when he pulled a gun as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him near Lacey, Washington.
A different context for today’s protests
The situation in Portland is very different now.There’s been a sustained and low-level protest outside the Portland ICE facility — far from the downtown clashes of 2020 — since Trump took office in January. Those protests flared in June, during the national protests surrounding Trump’s military parade, but have rarely attracted more than a few dozen people in the past two months.
Trump has once more turned his attention to the city, calling Portland “war ravaged,” and a “war zone” that is “burning down” and like “living in hell.” But local officials have suggested that many of his claims and social media posts appear to rely on images from 2020. Under a new mayor, the city has reduced crime, and the downtown has seen a decrease in homeless encampments and increased foot traffic.
Most violent crime around the country has actually declined in recent years, including in Portland, where a recent report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association found that homicides from January through June decreased by 51% this year compared to the same period in 2024.
City leaders have urged restraint and told residents not to “take the bait” this week after the announcement that the National Guard would be sent to Portland.
Oregon seeks to block National Guard deployment by Trump
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Karin J. Immergut heard arguments on whether to block the deployment of National Guard troops in Portland, where they would defend federal buildings such as the ICE facility from vandalism.Oregon sued to stop the deployment on Sept. 28 after Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek failed to persuade Trump to call off the deployment in a 10-minute phone call on Sept. 27.
Immergut said she would issue an order later Friday or over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the National Guard troops — from communities not too far from Portland — were training on the Oregon Coast in anticipation of deployment.
Thursday’s arrest of Sortor, however, likely means more federal law enforcement presence in Portland.
In an X post, which reposted a video from the protest and a photo of Sortor being detained, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said there would be an immediate increase in federal resources to the city with enhanced Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement resources.
“This violence will end under @POTUS Trump,” McLaughlin wrote.
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Portland police seek public’s help after ‘safe space’ officer loses track of assault suspect near ICE facility
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Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a woman accused of assault near the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland, Oregon, after one of its “dialogue liaison officers,” sworn officers tasked with “hold[ing] a safe space” for protesters, lost track of her.
Portland Police Bureau officials said that just before 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, a dialogue liaison officer (DLO) was monitoring a “gathering” outside the ICE building in the South Portland neighborhood, when he was flagged down by a person who said an assault had just taken place.
The DLO followed the woman, who was described as a White female with a large septum nose piercing wearing a black mask and carrying a backpack, trying to talk to her to “hear her side of the story,” according to a news release from Portland police.
The suspect, only identified as a young woman, is wanted in connection to an alleged assault near a Portland ICE building. (Portland Police Bureau)
PORTLAND RAMPS UP PRESSURE ON ICE BUILDING WITH LAND USE VIOLATION NOTICE
The woman would not stop, so the DLO told her she was being detained. She allegedly refused the lawful police order, and fled.
The DLO called in additional police resources, and just before 9 p.m., patrol officers met with the victim and began an investigation.
DLOs are sworn police officers, though they act in the role of a liaison and “cannot get involved in enforcement action,” according to the release.
Police said that when a dialogue liaison officer lost track of the suspect after asking for her side of the story. (Portland Police Bureau)
ANTI-ICE PORTLAND RIOTERS WITH GUILLOTINE CLASH WITH POLICE IN WAR-LIKE SCENES
Officials said the case has since been assigned to a detective in the Major Crimes Unit, though they did not release any information regarding the alleged assault.
“PPB members continue to conduct follow-up investigations into criminal activity and will forward cases to the Multnomah County District Attorney for prosecution when feasible,” according to the release. “Sometimes arrests are not made at the scene when tensions are high, and arrests are made at a later date.”
Photos provided by Portland police appear to show the suspect wearing cargo pants and a backpack. (Portland Police Bureau)
FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE LEADS TO ARREST OF SUSPECT ACCUSED OF INJURING ICE OFFICER
According to the city’s website, DLOs were put in place to “build relationships with protesters” following the violent 2020 protests in Portland.
Officer Jessica Ruch, an exemplary DLO featured on the site, wrote in May 2025 that liaison officers are stationed at protests to “get an idea of what that group is going to need to create or hold a safe space,” according to the site.
Ruch admits on the site that she “grew up going to protests,” calling them “a celebration of community and values.”
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“We don’t have a riot squad anymore. That’s an antiquated model. That vocabulary implies that the entire group of protesters has a single mindset,” Ruch wrote. “We do have a rapid response team who are trained to respond to potentially hazardous situations like civil disturbances or natural disasters. They come in when they need to address something quickly, and then they get out of there. We don’t want to be the bad guys.”
After discussing where she was when George Floyd was murdered, Ruch said her biggest concern was someone driving a car into a gathering “deliberately targeting protesters.”
The Portland Police Bureau did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Portland City Councilor Encourages National Guard Troops To Disobey – KXL
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Portland City Councilor Mitch Green is telling National Guard members being deployed to Portland that they “can refuse an unlawful order.”PORTLAND, OR – Calling President Trump’s deployment of Oregon National Guard troops to Portland a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism, District 4 City Councilor Mitch Green, himself a former member of the military, took to social media to encourage those troops to refuse the order.
“I want to remind you that your oath of service requires you to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, ” Green said. “That oath does not grant the president a right to your absolute obedience. You have not only the right, but the duty to disobey an unlawful order.”
Green cautioned that the troops assigned to Portland will have to make a difficult choice soon.
“Comply with deployment orders to occupy an American city or refuse those orders and face the consequences. But know that if you choose to refuse out of a higher sense of duty to the Constitution, that you won’t be alone,” Green promised. “There’s a group called About Face that offers support for service members who request peer or legal support when you make that choice,” he added. “Please know that there is a strong community of service members and veterans here to support you in the fight against fascism and I would encourage you to get in touch with them.”
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Portland Police Bureu Chief Bob Day Addresses Potential Incoming National Guard Trooops – KXL
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Chief Bob Day did not mince any words when he addressed reporters Monday afternoon on the possibilty of President Trump sending National Guard troops to Portland. He said, the national narrative simply isn’t correct, and the troops aren’t needed.
Chief Day held a press conference to discuss the state of the city and the posture of the PPB. He said they made 2 arrests on Sunday night after a demonstration at the Federal ICE Building along the South Waterfront. And noted that those are the first arrests they’ve made in connection to demonstrations at that location since mid-July.
Day said they have grown a great deal since the riots of 2020 and said that they are far better trained, equipped and supported here in 2025 should something arise where crowd control is needed. He called what’s happening with the President some kind of political move. And said they would continue with their consistent policies and procedures to protect the citizens and prevent crimes including vandalism by arresting offenders and using their training.
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March In Downtown Portland Remains Peaceful, While Two Are Arrested At Separate Gathering Near ICE Facility – KXL
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Photo Courtesy Portland PolicePORTLAND, Ore. – A peaceful march in downtown Portland on Sunday drew no arrests or injuries, according to the Portland Police Bureau, which facilitated the event with assistance from Dialogue Officers and traffic enforcement teams.
Officers on motorcycles and bicycles helped manage traffic while Dialogue Officers communicated with participants and answered questions throughout the march.
While the downtown march remained uneventful, a separate gathering near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in South Portland escalated during the evening. At one point, a vehicle attempting to drive through the crowd was surrounded. Dialogue Officers intervened and helped the driver exit the area safely.
Throughout the night, police observed several altercations between individuals with opposing views. Around 9:30 p.m., officers arrested a 17-year-old male from Milwaukie, Oregon, for fourth-degree assault near South Bond Avenue and South Abernathy Street. The juvenile was released to a guardian, and the case will be referred to the Juvenile Justice Court.
At approximately 10 p.m., the Rapid Response Team made a second arrest. Nathan McFarland, 38, of Portland, was taken into custody and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on a charge of third-degree assault.
PPB said no force was used by officers during either incident.
Police also took a report of a property crime during the gathering and are continuing to investigate.
The bureau reiterated that it does not engage in immigration enforcement.
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State AG Sues To Block Trump From Sending National Guard to Portland – KXL
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced that the State of Oregon and the City of Portland have filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in their lawsuit against President Donald Trump.SALEM, OR – Within hours of learning the Trump administration had federalized the state’s National Guard, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said his office filed for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court in Portland to block the action. The TRO seeks to immediately block the September 28th memorandum from Secretary Hegseth, which federalizes and deploys 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland.
“The facts are egregious,” said Attorney General Rayfield. “The President’s response to federalize 200 National Guard members for 60 days is not about keeping people safe – it’s about chasing headlines at the expense of our community.”
The TRO motion highlights:
- No legal basis for federalization. Under 10 U.S.C. §12406, the Guard may only be federalized in cases of invasion, rebellion, or when federal laws cannot otherwise be executed. None of those conditions exist in Oregon.
- Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act and 10 U.S.C. §275. Federalized troops may not be used for civilian law enforcement.
- Tenth Amendment infringement. States hold the constitutional authority to oversee public safety.
- Political retaliation. Singling out Portland—where recent protests have been small, peaceful, and without arrests—shows the action is a political stunt, not a public safety measure.
“Putting our own military on our streets is an abuse of power and a disservice to our communities and our service members,” added Attorney General Rayfield. “The Guard is made up of our neighbors and friends, not political props. Oregon is our home — not a military target.”
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‘Let’s not take the bait’: Oregon Senators slam draft-dodger Donald Trump for threatening to invade Portland using military | The Mary Sue
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Donald Trump announced Saturday, Sept. 27, about his plans to send military to Portland, the most populous city in the state of Oregon. But the senators are not taking any of his tyrannic orders this time.
Calling Portland war-ravaged and “under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump announced on his Truth Social account on Saturday that he will soon deploy military in the region to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. The announcement immediately sent Portland natives into shock and fear, prompting the Governor and Oregon Senators to intervene.
Trump’s assertion that he will “authorizing Full Force, if necessary,” even though there was no sign of any federal presence earlier during the day caused further ruckus. The Democratic Governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek, immediately responded by accusing Trump of abusing his authority and asserting that the city is doing “just fine” on its own.
“We can manage our own local public safety needs. There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security,” she said during a press conference.
Joining the ranks of the Governor, Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have also released statements regarding the matter. Accusing Trump of provoking conflict in his “vibrant and peaceful” hometown, Wyden urged Oregonians to “reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence.” He called the forceful deployment of troops an “authoritarian takeover” and assured that he will do everything in his power to protect his people.
In a similar sentiment, Merkley made it loud and clear to Oregonians to “not take the bait” by Trump to “trigger violent interactions and riots” in the city. He asserted that “Portland is peaceful and strong” and sent a clear message to Trump that the state officials and citizens can take care of each other.
“Trump is sending troops to Portland with the goal of ‘doing a number’ on the city. We know what this means. He wants to stoke fear and chaos and trigger violent interactions and riots to justify expanded authoritarian control. Let’s not take the bait!”
While it’s true that Trump’s national immigration crackdown has caused protests in the recent months at Portland’s ICE facilities, no severe violence has been reported that justifies military deployment in the whole city. In reality, Portland is simply the latest pawn in Trump’s authoritarian expansion game, following his earlier deployments to Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. What he’s selling as protection is in fact political intimidation, and Oregon’s leaders are making it clear they won’t be bullied into playing along.
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Portland mayor condemns federal intervention, claims videos of anti-ICE riots were from years ago
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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s plan to send federal troops to Oregon’s largest city, claiming there is no lawlessness or violence there.
Trump announced Saturday morning he plans to send troops to Portland at the request of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The president said he directed War Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide “all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” adding he was authorizing full force, if necessary.
Hours later, Wilson said during a news conference the number of necessary troops is “zero” in Portland, “and any other American city.”
Police are seen dispersing the crowd outside the Portland ICE facility Sept. 1 in Oregon. (X/@KatieDaviscourt)
TRUMP VOWS ‘FULL FORCE’ AS HE PLANS TO SEND TROOPS TO PORTLAND AMID ANTI-ICE PROTESTS
“This is an American city,” Wilson said. “We do not need any intervention. This is not a military target.”
The mayor alleged the president would “not find” lawlessness or violence in the city, claiming video footage showing violence in the city was from five years ago was “recycled and then recycled again.”
“If President Trump came to Portland today, what he would find is people riding their bikes, playing sports, enjoying the sunshine, buying groceries or produce from a farmers’ market,” Wilson said. “We’ve had hard conversations, and we’ve done important work in the years since that footage was taken, we reformed our public safety system. We’ve refocused our community and on our economy, and we’ve redoubled our efforts to help our most vulnerable.”
Since June, protests have erupted near an ICE facility in Portland, where city officials cited land use violations, including improper detainee holding times and boarded-up windows.
PORTLAND RAMPS UP PRESSURE ON ICE BUILDING WITH LAND USE VIOLATION NOTICE
The building has been vandalized with anti-ICE graffiti and clashes between protesters and federal agents have occasionally turned violent, leading to the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and flash bangs.
Video obtained by Fox News Digital confirmed another violent protest in August, with footage showing protesters rolling out a guillotine, lighting fires and fighting with authorities — forcing law enforcement to disperse the crowd with munitions.
PORTLAND MAYOR WARNS CITY TO FIX HOMELESS PROBLEM BEFORE TRUMP ‘DEPLOYS BULLDOZERS’
Instead of sending troops to protect the federal facility, Wilson suggested the president send “hundreds of engineers, or teachers, or outreach workers” to Portland instead of a “short, expensive and fruitless show of force.”
“I am so deeply disappointed with the federal government’s irresponsibility,” he said. “At the end of the day, this may be a show of force, but that’s all it is. It’s a big show, and after the big show, everyone goes home. That’s what I want to happen here today in Portland. We have a long and proud tradition of peaceful protest. We have a long and proud track record of being at the forefront of positive social change.”
The action comes after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
“There are new risks today, risks that we do not yet fully understand,” he continued. “The administration has refused to elaborate on what they mean when they say they will deploy full force against our city and citizens.”
In his announcement on Saturday, Trump did not say he would deploy full force against the city of Portland and its citizens, as Wilson claimed.
The president said he would send “all necessary troops” to protect the city and its ICE facilities, authorizing full force against domestic terrorism “if necessary.”
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Portland, a sanctuary city since 2017, has resisted federal immigration enforcement, making it a focal point during the administration’s immigration enforcement initiative.
In August, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Wilson, warning the city’s sanctuary policies undermine U.S. interests. She demanded Portland affirm compliance with federal law and end practices that obstruct immigration enforcement.
The City of Portland did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Gov. And Other Leaders React To President’s Authorization Of Troops To Portland – KXL
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Gov. Tina Kotek, and other city & state leaders, speak to reporters 09/27/2025. Photo: Heather RobertsPortland, Ore. – Oregon’s Governor says she will not authorize the use of her National Guard in Portland, despite a request from the Trump Administration. She says she had to initiate a conversation with the President after he posted to social media that he would send troops to the state’s largest city.
Governor Tina Kotek says she talked to President Trump Saturday morning, telling him she disagrees with his assertion the city is “war ravaged” and federal intervention is needed. “And I also said to him, ‘we have to be careful not to respond to outdated media coverage or misinformation that’s out there’.” Some have speculated his administration is using footage from 2020 to justify the deployment of troops. Mayor Keith Wilson said, “I’ve been so deeply disappointed to see the footage from a half decade ago recycled and then recycled again.” Wilson, Kotek and other elected and civic leaders spoke to reporters Saturday afternoon from Tom McCall Waterfront Park. “This is not a military target,” Wilson said, “If President Trump came to Portland today, what he would find is people riding their bikes, playing sports, enjoying the sunshine, buying groceries or produce from a farmers market.”
Wilson also noted no one from the Trump Administration reached out to his office before or after authorizing troops, “President Trump has directed ‘all necessary troops’ to Portland, Oregon. The number of ‘necessary troops’ is zero.”
Officials clarified statements made Friday night about an increased federal presence in the city, saying armored vehicles had been seen near the South Waterfront ICE facility, and more federal law enforcement were in town. However, no military troops had actually yet been deployed, despite the President’s authorization.
Other politicians joined the call for the President to back down from his threat. Senate President Rob Wagner (D-Lake Oswego) issued a statement saying in part, “President Trump’s threat to deploy the military in Portland is an attempt to incite people and distract from the real challenges that face this nation.” I went on to call on Oregonians to remain peaceful, “In the face of this threat of unwanted and unneeded federal aggression.”
City Councilor Candace Avalos said in a statement, “The Trump administration is deeply unpopular with Americans and they’re desperate to turn our city into propaganda that they can use to justify their authoritarian agenda.” President & CEO of the Urban League of Portland Nkenge Harmon added, “Portland is not a war zone. It is our home. It is safe, united, beautiful, and resilient. I know our community will rise to the occasion and not fall for this political theater.”
U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum sent a letter to the President, along with the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense saying, “By bypassing consultation with Congress, the administration has further eroded public trust and is risking inflaming tensions on the ground. Oregonians deserve transparency and assurance that the use of military force—of which you have authorized ‘full force’—within our state is consistent with constitutional principles and public safety, not political gamesmanship.” U.S. Rep Andrea Salinas noted, “Federal courts already ruled it was illegal when Trump sent troops to California. It was illegal then, and it still is now.”
Oregon’s House Republican Leader Rep. Christine Drazan (R-Canby) issued the following statement:
The ICE facility in Portland has been subject to months of dangerously chaotic protests that have put residents and federal agents in harm’s way. The governor’s assertion that there is no national security threat and the mayor’s assertion that everything is fine is tone-deaf. It’s shameful that state and local leaders have allowed violent mobs and domestic terrorists to assault federal law enforcement, destroy property, and interfere with those seeking immigration services from obtaining assistance and case management. We need order, we need to restore safety, and Oregon’s local leaders have failed to provide it.
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Trump news at a glance: Trump orders deployment of national guard to ‘war ravaged’ Portland
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Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of the national guard to Portland, Oregon, authorizing “full force, if necessary”, ignoring calls from local and state officials who say the president has been misinformed about the scale of a protest outside a federal immigration office.
The president says that he has directed all necessary troops to be deployed to protect “war ravaged Portland”, claiming that immigration facilities were “under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists”.
Officials in Portland have pushed back against the decision and rejected the president’s characterization.
“There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security and there is no need for military troops in our major city,” said Oregon’s Democratic governor, Tina Kotek.
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Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon
Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, where he claimed that the deployment was necessary “to protect war ravaged Portland,” and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facilities he said were “under siege by antifascists and other domestic terrorists”.
Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, rejected the president’s characterization. “In my conversations directly with President Trump and secretary [of homeland security, Kristi] Noem, I have been abundantly clear that Portland and the state of Oregon believe in the rule of law and can manage our own local public safety needs,” Kotek said at a news conference in Portland on Saturday.
Portland residents scoff at Trump threat to send military: ‘This is not a war zone’
A visit to downtown Portland on Saturday, hours after Donald Trump falsely declared the city “war ravaged” to justify the deployment of federal troops, made it plain the US president’s impression of the city, apparently shaped by misleading conservative media reports, is entirely divorced from reality.
There were just four protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in an outlying residential neighborhood that the president had claimed was “under siege” by antifascists and “other domestic terrorists”.
Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids
Donald Trump fired a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she warned immigration agents they could not indiscriminately detain people in her district, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times.
Michele Beckwith, who became the acting US attorney in Sacramento in January, received an email at 4.31pm on 15 July notifying her that the president had ordered her termination.
‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help
Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as a “a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”, saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help.
Six people detained at the California City detention center, which opened in late August and is now the state’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center, shared accounts with the Guardian of poor conditions and alleged mistreatment by staff.
US military brass brace for firings as Pentagon chief orders top-level meeting
US military officials are reportedly bracing for possible firings or demotions after the Trump administration’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, abruptly summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to attend a gathering in Virginia in the upcoming days.
The event, scheduled for Tuesday at Marine Corps University in Quantico, is expected to feature a short address by Hegseth focused on military standards and the “warrior ethos”, according to the Washington Post.
FBI arrest man who allegedly threatened to shoot people at Texas Pride parade
Federal authorities in Texas have arrested a man for allegedly threatening to shoot people at a pro-LGBTQ+ parade, to avenge the murder of Charlie Kirk.
According to court documents viewed by the Guardian, on 18 September, the FBI’s field office in Dallas was notified by Abilene, Texas, police about online threats from a local resident.
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