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“A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Donald Trump's administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon, a setback for the president as he seeks to dispatch the military to cities over the objections of their Democratic leaders…
“The ruling by U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut followed the Trump administration's decision to call in troops from California and Texas just one day after she temporarily blocked Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland. Immergut, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, said there was no evidence that recent protests necessitated the presence of National Guard troops.” Reuters
“Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building [last] week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members… Authorities arrested at least 37 people on immigration violations, most of whom were Venezuelan… As part of the raid, some U.S. citizens were temporarily detained and children pulled from their beds, according to interviews with residents and news reports.” Reuters
“A judge on Monday gave President Donald Trump's administration two days to respond to Illinois's legal challenge of the deployment of hundreds of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago, even as U.S. lawyers said the troops were on the way from Texas.” Reuters
The left opposes the National Guard deployments, arguing that the military should be sent only as a last resort.
“Many Americans, including the eager Fox News watcher in the White House, are convinced that Portland is a hellscape of arson and violence. It’s not. Over the weekend, Portland’s 50-year-old Saturday Market unfolded as usual on the banks of the Willamette River; 9,000 people ran the Portland Marathon; the Portland Thorns soccer team beat the Bay Football Club 2-1 in front of nearly 17,000 fans…
“Also on Saturday night, several hundred protesters marched to the city’s ICE headquarters to decry the treatment of immigrants. ICE personnel handled the protest just fine with tear gas, and even managed to send two 84-year-old demonstrators to the hospital after beating them to the ground… Is there ‘a rebellion or danger of a rebellion’ because a small group of protesters has occasionally blocked ICE vehicles?”
Garrett Epps, Washington Monthly
“While the president certainly deserves general deference when it comes to public safety, not allowing judicial review of sending the military into U.S. cities would create a recipe for dictatorship…
“[The judge] noted that the Constitution leaves policing powers to state and local governments while granting Congress the power to provide for calling up state militias to execute federal laws, suppress insurrections and repel invasions. She said Trump’s determination that troops were needed was ‘simply untethered’ to ‘the facts on the ground.’”
Editorial Board, Washington Post
“Trump seems to be stuck in 2020, the end of his first term. Back then, a rowdy group of protesters was allowed to take over Portland’s downtown for several months… Five years later, Portland has moved on. Voters ousted a police reformer from the City Council in favor of a candidate who vowed to hire more officers. The county’s progressive district attorney also lost his reelection bid to a centrist who promised to be tough on crime…
“And last year, voters elected [Keith] Wilson, a businessman who campaigned on clearing homeless encampments and who criticized his city on the campaign trail for becoming ‘a national symbol for failed leadership.’… Unlike in 2020, the few dozen or so people who gather [to protest] most days have generally remained peaceful.”
Erika D. Smith, Bloomberg
“We are now a country where nonviolent people are regularly arrested and detained with little explanation and where the threat of armed troops coming to your city is constant. And this militarization keeps accelerating. America is certainly not a police state, but this is the most like a police state we have been in my lifetime, including in the months after the September 11, 2001, attacks.”
Perry Bacon, New Republic
The right supports the National Guard deployments, arguing that local police are failing to protect federal agents.
The right supports the National Guard deployments, arguing that local police are failing to protect federal agents.
“Unsurprisingly in Chicago, which has a contemporary left wing that makes Red Emma Goldman look like a Bircher, the [recent ICE] operation soon led to daily protests outside the ICE processing center in the Chicago suburb of Broadview. This Saturday brought a scarily violent scene during an ICE patrol on Chicago’s South Side, when, according to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents ‘were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.’…
“Agents shot (non-fatally) a woman who was allegedly brandishing a semi-automatic weapon. There’s some dispute about what role the Chicago Police Department played in all this, but a dispatch call does go, ‘per the chief of patrol, all units clear out from there, we’re not sending anybody out to that location.’ The CPD doesn’t seem to want to get involved. Hence, the National Guard.”
Cockburn, Spectator World
In Portland, “When [federal agents call] for backup, these pretend cops respond that they ‘don’t have the resources,’ according to court documents tendered in Oregon’s lawsuit. After ‘citizen journalist’ Katie Daviscourt was given a black eye by an Antifa type who attacked her with a flagpole last week, Portland police ignored her entreaties to arrest her assailant…
“But the next night, they arrested her colleague Nick Sortor and charged him with disorderly conduct after he got into a one-sided scuffle with an aggressive group of black bloc militants who pushed him to the ground and broke his camera… Under orders from the Democrats who run the city, there’s no question that Portland cops are taking sides against the federal government.”
Miranda Devine, New York Post
“The Portland police chief is dismissing any and all lawlessness as just happening on ‘one city block.’ That this city block so happens to include federal property that Portland is refusing to protect is apparently irrelevant, as is the implication that Portland leaders are so incompetent that they cannot enforce the law on this particular city block. However, this is par for the course for Portland, which allowed lawless people in 2020 to take over three city blocks for months as an ‘autonomous zone’ that openly defied city and state authority…
“Portland has the highest office vacancy rate in the country at 35%, and businesses cite lawlessness and homelessness as reasons for leaving. Mayor Keith Wilson is whining that the ICE facility in Portland has boarded up windows, apparently not bothering to ask why the facility would board up windows in the first place… All they had to do was enforce existing laws; instead, they have spent all that time whining about how conservative media portray their violent rioters.”
Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner
