Members of the National Guard patrol along the Tidal Basin on the National Mall in Washington, DC., in August. The Trump administration ordered 200 hundred soldiers to Portland which was blocked by a court order. File photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A judge on Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from sending any National Guard troops to Portland, saying federal authorities were trying to circumvent her earlier order.
U.S. Judge Karin Immergut issued her order late Sunday night after the Trump administration planned to send 200 federalized California National Guard troops to Portland to quell sometimes confrontational protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility located in the city.
Immergut's order comes just a day after directing the Trump administration to halt its mobilization of the Oregon National over the objections of state and local leaders. The U.S. Justice Department appealed the earlier ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will rule on the case.
Portland is the latest city President Donald Trump has sought to dispatch federal troops to, saying they are needed to address what he has said is uncontrolled crime (a claim local officials have disputed).
