California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Sunday that he would go to court to fight President Donald Trump’s decision to send some 300 members of the National Guard to Oregon, where demonstrators gathered near an American immigration and customs application in Portland.
Oregon governor Tina Kotek said 101 members of the California National Guard arrived in his state on Saturday evening by plane and that others were on the way. Kotek said there was no formal communication with the federal government on deployment. One day earlier, a judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration to deploy 200 members of the Oregon Guard in Portland.
“There is no need for military intervention in Oregon,” Kotek said on Sunday.
There was no official announcement of the White House that the California National Guard was called and sent to Oregon, as when the governor of Illinois made a similar announcement on Saturday on his activated state troops.
The Kotek office said on Sunday that he could not check the current location of the members of the guard who arrived in Oregon on Saturday, manager of the defense ministry, who refused to comment.
Trump expressed his frustration on Sunday morning about the decision on Saturday morning by the judge of the American district court Karin Immergut, which he appointed during his first mandate, which now prevents him from deploying troops with relatively small demonstrations near an ice installation in Portland.
“I was not well served by people who chose judges,” said Trump, adding that the judge “should be ashamed of her” because “Portland burns on the ground”.
Trump authorized the deployment of 300 troops of the Illinois National Guard to protect the federal officers and assets in Chicago on Saturday, marking the last climb of its use of federal intervention in cities.
The spokesman for the White House, Abigail Jackson, confirmed that the president had authorized the use of the members of the Illinois National Guard, citing what he called “violent riots and anarchy” that local leaders have not repressed.
Trump characterized both Portland and Chicago while cities go upmarket with crimes and troubles, calling the first a “war zone” and suggesting that apocalyptic force was necessary to stifle problems in the latter. Since the start of his second mandate, he sent or spoke of sending troops to 10 cities, including Baltimore, Maryland; Memphis, Tennessee; The Columbia district; New Orleans, Louisiana; And the cities of California of Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
But the governors of Illinois and Oregon see deployments differently.
“This morning, the Ministry of War of the Trump Administration gave me an ultimatum: call your troops, or we will do it,” the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, said in a statement. “It is absolutely scandalous and non -American to demand that a governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”
Oregon governor Tina Kotek spoke to Trump at the end of September and said the deployment was not necessary. She refused to call the troops of the Oregon National Guard, then Trump himself did in an order to the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. This caused the trial of city and state officials.
The Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a service note that also directs component agencies within the Ministry of Justice, including the FBI, to help protect American immigration and customs application, including Chicago and Portland.
Here is a snapshot of where things are with federal law enforcement activities in Chicago, Portland and elsewhere:
In Chicago, alarms were raised on racial profiling
The view of armed, camouflaged and masked border patrol agents producing arrests near famous monuments in the city center has amplified such concerns. Many chicagoans were already uncomfortable after a repression of immigration earlier this month. The agents targeted the heavy areas and largely Latin American.
The demonstrators frequently joined near an immigration establishment outside the city, and federal officials reported the arrests of 13 demonstrators on Friday near the American immigration treatment and Customs in BroadView.
The Ministry of Internal Security acknowledged that federal agents killed a woman on Saturday morning on the southwest side of Chicago. A declaration from the department said it occurred after agents of the border patrol patrolling in the area “were struck by vehicles and locked up by 10 cars”.
“The police left their trapped vehicle, when a suspect tried to overthrow them, forcing the police to shoot the defensive,” the statement said.
No law enforcement agent was seriously injured, said DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
The woman who was killed was an American citizen and was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, according to McLaughlin. She said that the woman went to the hospital for treatment, but a spokesperson for the Chicago fire service told Chicago Sun-Totes that she had been found near the premises and taken to the hospital in good condition.
The defenders of immigrants’ rights and residents said separately that federal agents used tear gas near the grocery store or targeted hardware for the application elsewhere in Chicago on Friday and owned a member of the municipal council when he questioned the attempted arrest of a man.
Deployment in Portland blocked by the judge
Judge Immergut made the decision temporarily blocking the deployment on Saturday afternoon, claiming that the relatively low demonstrations that the city has seen did not justify the use of federalized forces and that deployment could harm the sovereignty of the state of Oregon.
“This country has a tradition of long -standing and fundamental resistance to the overcoming of the government, in particular in the form of military intrusion in civil affairs,” wrote Immergut. She said later: “This historical tradition comes down to a simple proposal: it is a nation of constitutional law, no martial law.”
Trump described Portland as “ravaged war” and suggested that the city “burns”. But local officials said many of his statements and media publications seem to rely on images of 2020, when demonstrations and troubles seized the city after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
On Saturday, before the communication of the judge’s decision, around 400 demonstrators went from a park to the ease of holding immigration and customs in Portland. The group included people of all ages and all races, families with children and retirees with walkers, Oregonian reported. Federal agents used chemical crowd control ammunition, including tear gas cartridges and less lethal guns that sprayed pepper balls and stopped at least six people while the group reached the installation of ice.
At 4 p.m., the crowd had enlightened considerably.
A federal “crime force” in Memphis
On Wednesday, Hegseth, Bondi and the deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller, joined the members of a federal law group for the application of the law which began to operate in Memphis as part of the Trump crime plan. The governor of Tennessee Bill Lee, a republican, argued the effort.
Bondi declared via social media that the working group had carried out more than 50 arrests over a period of two days. More than 200 officers were deputies, including immigration staff and the application of drugs. They served criminal arrest warrants and teamed up with state agencies on traffic stops.
Some residents, including Latinos, have expressed their concerns that agents hold people regardless of immigration status.
The Governor of Louisiana asks for the National Guard
On September 30, Republican Governor Jeff Landry asked for a deployment of childcare in New Orleans and other cities to help fight crime.
In a letter to Hegseth, Landry also welcomed the president’s decision to send troops to Washington and Memphis.
He said there had been “high levels of violent crimes” in Shreveport, Red Baton and New Orleans, as well as shortages in the application of local laws.
But crime in some of the largest cities in the state has actually decreased recently, New Orleans having experienced a particularly steep drop in 2025 which has the pace for the lowest number of murders in more than five decades.
The Court of Appeal weighs the deployment of California
Trump deployed soldiers on duty and navies in active service in Los Angeles during the summer about Governor Newsom, who continued and won a temporary block after a federal judge discovered that the use of the president was probably illegal.
The Trump administration called and the block was suspended by a panel of three judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The call case is still in progress, but the panel said it thinks that the administration is likely to prevail.
