Federal agents, including members of the Ministry of Internal Security, Border Patrol, and the police, are trying to keep the demonstrators outside an immigration and customs center in downtown downtown on October 5, 2025 in Portland, Oregon.
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On Sunday evening, a federal judge prevented the Trump administration from deploying federal national guard units in Oregon, including hundreds of soldiers outside the state. He came a few hours after the government sent members of the California National Guard to Oregon.
Oregon and Portland returned to court – this time with California as an additional party at the trial – and asked the American district judge Karin J. Immergut for a new temporary ban prescription preventing the Trump administration from sending the California National Guard to Oregon.
In his decision, Immergut prevented the members of the National Guard from moving from any state for the Oregon service. One day earlier, she temporarily prevented the Trump administration from federating the Oregon National Guard.
“I am certainly disturbed when he now heard that California and Texas are sent to Oregon, which seem to be in direct contradiction of my order,” said Immergut in his order, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
The decision came while Portland and Chicago were preparing for the possibility that the members of the National Guard were deployed in their streets, while President Trump advances with his plan to send troops to American cities managed by Democrats who, according to him, require aid to control crime and protect federal law enforcement agents.
On Saturday, the White House said that Trump had “authorized” the deployment of 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, after promising for weeks to send federal forces to Chicago.
The members of the guard will be used to protect federal goods as well as agents of federal services and federal protection services and other federal employees, according to a copy of a federal note consulted by NPR. They will be sent to places where there are “violent demonstrations” in the state or where they are likely to occur according to “assessments of current threats,” said the memo.
Also during the weekend, the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott said that he had authorized the deployment of 400 members of the Texas National Guard at the request of Trump.
Already this year, the Trump administration sent members of the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, DC Trump said that he also intended to send troops to Memphis with the support of the Republican Governor of Tennessee Bill Lee.
The last effort is against the wishes of Democratic governors of Oregon and Illinois, Tina Kotek and JB Pritzker, who say that the deployment of the guard is not necessary and will increase tensions.
On Saturday, Pritzker wrote in an article on X that the “Department of War of the Trump administration gave me an ultimatum: call your troops, or we will do it”. Pritzker added: “It is absolutely scandalous and non -American to demand that a governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”
In a subsequent position, Pritzker said that no one in the administration had contacted him about the deployment of members of the Texas National Guard in Illinois. “We must now start to call what it is: Trump’s invasion,” he wrote.
The White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said in a statement on Saturday that Trump had activated the troops of the Illinois National Guard “(a) in the midst of violent riots and anarchy” in Chicago to “protect the federal officers and assets”, reported Wbez. Trump said that the deployments of the National Guard are in an effort to fight crime, despite violent crimes in Chicago and other cities.
It came the same day as agents of the border patrol shot a woman in Chicago. Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security, said that the woman was part of a group of drivers who had struck federal agents with their vehicles. The woman, Marimar Martinez, has been released from the hospital and is now under the custody of the FBI, said DHS in a statement. No agent was seriously injured, according to McLaughlin.
A judge blocks Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard in Portland – twice
The decision of Immergut Sunday at the end of Sunday was the second time during the weekend that she had temporarily blocked the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard in Oregon.
Oregon governor Tina Kotek castigated government actions in a statement after the decision. “President Trump’s actions are an effort to occupy and encourage cities and states that do not share his policy,” said Kotek, “and I think we should expect him to continue to push the limits of his authority.”
On Saturday, Immergut ruled that the government had not reached the threshold to declare that recent demonstrations outside an ice installation in Portland constituted a rebellion.
IMMERGUT, which was appointed by Trump in 2019, said that demonstrations in the establishment since July were generally limited to less than 30 people and were “largely calm”. She added that the city’s police forces were trained in the management of crowds and could request the help of other law enforcement organizations – and even the National Guard – if it needed.
The Trump Administration has federally 200 members of the Oregon National Guard last Sunday for a deployment of 60 days, according to a service note sent to Governor Kotek of the Ministry of Defense.
As in Chicago, Trump planned to send the troops to Portland for the objections of state leaders and local leaders.
Trump said on Sunday that he had not seen the judge’s order, but that “this judge should be ashamed of themselves”.
Despite the judge’s decision, the members of the guard began to go to Oregon, according to California Governie Gavin Newsom. He declared Sunday in an article on X that the Trump administration had sent 300 members of the staff of the California National Guard to the neighbor of the northern state.
“They are on their way now,” said Newsom. “We bring this fight before the courts. The public cannot remain silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.”
Kotek said 101 members of California Guard arrived in Oregon on Saturday and that others were on the way.
Later on Sunday, Newsom welcomed the judge’s decision blocking the deployment of California’s troops. “We have just won in court-once again,” he wrote in an article on X. “Trump’s abuse of power will not remain.”
Gigi Douban and Tom Bowman contributed to the reports.
