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Illinois
and
Chicago
filed a
lawsuit
Monday
aiming
to stop
President
Donald
Trump’s
administration
from
sending
hundred
of
National
Guard
troops
to the
city. It
comes
after a
federal
judge
blocked
troops
from
being
sent to
Portland,
Oregon.
(AP
Production:
Marissa
Duhaney) |
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Donald
Trump
Claims
Portland
"Insurrection"
Without
Evidence;
Judge
Blocks
Troop
Deployments
Li Haung
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National-Politics
Tell Us
USA News
Network
The
President's
Position
WASHINGTON
- On
Monday,
October
6, 2025,
President
Donald
Trump
stated
from the
Oval
Office
that he
was
considering
invoking
the
Insurrection
Act to
send
federal
troops
into
Portland,
Oregon.
Trump
characterized
the
situation
in the
city as
an
"insurrection,"
claiming
that
Portland
"has
been on
fire for
years"
and
describing
protesters
as
left-wing
"domestic
terrorists."
Trump
told
reporters
he
didn't
yet see
an
immediate
need to
invoke
the act,
but made
clear he
was
willing
to do
so: "If
I had to
enact
it, I'd
do that.
If
people
were
being
killed,
and
courts
were
holding
us up,
or
governors
or
mayors
were
holding
us up,
sure I'd
do
that."
The
president
specifically
cited
recent
events
at the
federal
Immigration
and
Customs
Enforcement
(ICE)
facility
in
Portland
as
justification
for his
concerns,
stating
the
building
has been
"attacked
again"
and that
federal
buildings
are
under
siege.
Trump
framed
the
potential
troop
deployment
as
necessary
to
safeguard
federal
buildings
during
immigration
enforcement
operations,
asserting
that "We
have an
Insurrection
Act for
a
reason."
What
Actually
Happened
in
Portland
According
to court
documents
filed on
October
4, 2025,
protests
in
Portland
did
occur
around
the ICE
facility,
particularly
following
Trump's
immigration
enforcement
announcements.
However,
the
nature
of these
protests
changed
significantly
over
time.
After
June 25,
2025,
the
protests
were
"generally
peaceful
in
nature
with
only
sporadic
incidents
of
violence
and
disruptive
behavior."
By late
September,
these
protests
typically
involved
twenty
or fewer
people.
On
Saturday
evening,
September
27th, a
small
crowd of
protesters
gathered
outside
the
Portland
ICE
building
after
Trump's
announcement
about
deploying
federal
troops
to the
city.
The
Federal
Government's
Actions
On
September
28,
2025,
Defense
Secretary
Pete
Hegseth
issued a
memorandum
authorizing
the
deployment
and
federalization
of 200
Oregon
National
Guard
service
members,
over the
objection
of
Oregon
Governor
Tina
Kotek.
This
came
after
federal
authorities
gave
Governor
Kotek a
tight
12-hour
deadline
on
Saturday,
September
27th:
either
call up
200
guard
members
on her
own
authority
within
half a
day, or
federal
officials
would
federalize
them.
State
and
Local
Response
Governor
Kotek
has
adamantly
rejected
Trump's
characterization
of
events
in
Portland.
At a
press
conference
on
Saturday
afternoon,
September
27th,
she
stated
emphatically:
"There
is no
insurrection,
there is
no
threat
to
national
security
and no
need for
federal
troops
in
Portland."
She
dismissed
Trump's
military
deployment
announcement
as an
"abuse
of
power"
and a
"misuse
of
federal
troops,"
insisting
that
"Portland
is doing
just
fine."
Kotek
has
repeatedly
told the
president
that
"this
situation
is not
an
insurrection;
it does
not
require
military
intervention,"
and
emphasized
that
state
and
local
authorities
are
"maintaining
the
ability
for
people
to
exercise
their
free
speech
rights,
but also
protecting
the
folks on
the
ground
there."
Text
messages
between
Trump
and
Kotek
reveal
significant
tension
and
"widespread
confusion"
over
what has
actually
been
happening
outside
the ICE
facility.
In one
exchange,
Kotek
wrote to
Trump:
"I
believe
this is
unlawful
and
unwarranted.
You
broke
your
promise
to speak
with me
before
taking
further
action
against
Portland."
Trump
responded:
"I
notified
you to
get
things
in
order,
and you
didn't.
They
attacked
our ICE
[facility]."
Legal
Challenges
That
same day
as the
federalization
order—September
28th—the
State of
Oregon
and the
City of
Portland
filed a
lawsuit
against
the
Trump
administration.
On
October
4, 2025,
a
federal
judge
granted
a
temporary
restraining
order
blocking
the
Trump
administration
from
sending
federalized
National
Guard
troops
to
Portland.
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