The ongoing battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities intensified this weekend, with a federal judge in Oregon hitting pause on the president’s plan to deploy federal troops in Portland, and the White House announcing authorization for hundreds of National Guard members to be sent to Chicago.
Those developments came against the backdrop of continuing protests in Chicago and Portland against federal law enforcement, who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration enforcement agenda.
Trump and his administration have framed demonstrations in the two cities as “violent protests” carried out by “domestic terrorists,” arguing that military deployments are necessary to protect federal immigration personnel and property – despite state and city leaders’ insistence that the protests have been largely peaceful and any violence has been easily dealt with by local law enforcement.
Tensions spiked in Chicago Saturday after US Customs and Border Protection agents fired “defensive shots” at a woman wh
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