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Here are the facts on Trump's orders to send troops to Portland and Chicago
Legal challenges temporarily block deployment of up to 700 National Guard troops amid protests and political disputes over federal intervention in two major U.S. cities.
- Last week U.S. President Donald Trump ordered National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon and sent up to 300 Illinois and 400 Texas Guardsmen to Chicago, Illinois.
- Protests at the Portland ICE facility began with small but persistent demonstrations over the summer, escalating in mid-June when hundreds used a makeshift battering ram and on Sept. 1 when more than 100 marched with a guillotine.
- On the ground in Chicago, federal agents stormed an apartment by helicopter, used chemical agents near a school, and detained a Chicago City Council member, while President Donald Trump characterized Portland as `war ravaged` and `under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists`.
- On Sunday U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut blocked troop deployments and barred any state's troops from Oregon for two weeks, while Illinois filed a lawsuit on Monday.
- President Donald Trump shows little sign of retreat as governors, mayors and citizens called the deployments `absurd, unlawful and un-American` and the Chicago move `absolutely outrageous and un-American`; Trump said on Wednesday the National Guard was `in place` but reporting found otherwise.
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Here are the facts on Trump's orders to send troops to Portland and Chicago
As Donald Trump moves to send the military into Portland and Chicago, a flurry of lawsuits have attempted to stop him from doing it. Governors in Oregon and Illinois — and now courts — say Trump has no authority to do so. Here are the facts.
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