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A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order yesterday blocking the Trump Administration from deploying around 200 National Guardsmen to the city of Portland.
Judge Karin Immergut, who was appointed by President Trump during his first term in 2019, granted the TRO following a lawsuit from both the city of Portland and the state of Oregon.
They claim that the majority of anti-ICE protests in the city are small and mostly peaceful, a claim that seems to be disproven by on-the-ground footage from those protests.
Trump had announced on September 27th that he had authorized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy troops to Portland with the goal of defending ICE agents and the city of Portland itself from "Antifa and other domestic terrorists."
Trump had called Portland "war-ravaged" and authorized the use of "full force, if necessary."