A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s move to send National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued an emergency temporary restraining order Sunday night after officials from California and Oregon asked the court to intervene. The order prevents National Guard troops from any state across the country and Washington, D.C. from being sent to Oregon.
“We just won in court—again,” Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., wrote on X Sunday night. “A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.”
The court order follows Trump’s effort to deploy National Guard troops to Portland to guard federal property amid protests and riots outside an immigration detention center in the city. Federal and local law enforcement have made multiple arrests of protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland in recent days.
Asked about the judge’s order, Trump told press Monday his administration is going to “look at that.”
“Portland is burning to the ground. It’s insurrectionist all over the place,” the president said.
Trump is working to take similar action in Chicago. Over the weekend, the president authorized 300 Illinois National Guard to go to Chicago to guard federal buildings. Trump is also ordering hundreds of Texas National Guardsmen to Chicago in a move Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker is labeling “Trump’s invasion.”
“I call on [Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott] to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate,” Pritzker wrote on X. “There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.”
Abbott, a vocal Trump supporter and pro-border security governor, responded to Pritzker on X Sunday night, writing:
“I fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials. You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it.”
Protests and riots against migrant detention facilities come amid the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign to detain and deport millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S., with the priority being placed on criminal illegal aliens.
Since Trump returned to the White House in January, two million illegal aliens have been removed or chosen to self deport, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The immigration crackdown has spurred anti-ICE protests in cities across the country and led to a 1,000% increase in assaults on ICE officers, according to DHS. Violence against immigration officials came to a head in September when a man opened fire on an immigration detention facility in Dallas, leaving two detainees dead and another wounded.
“DHS, under President Trump, will NOT ALLOW domestic terrorists to overrun our cities,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said over the weekend. “We will bust their networks and bring every one of them to justice.”
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