The deployment would mark the last escalation of the use of the federal intervention of Donald Trump in cities led by the Democrats, which the president of the United States describes as a cry of the crime.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is sending 300 members of the California National Guard to Oregon, after a judge temporarily blocked his administration to deploy the guard of that state to Portland, Oregon.
Newsom, a Democrat, described the deployment on Sunday “an impressive abuse of law and power” and promised to fight against the move in court.
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He said that these troops were “federalized” and put under the control of the President months ago for his objections, in response to the disturbances in Los Angeles.
“The commander in chief is using the United States Army as a political weapon against US citizens,” said Newsom in the statement. “We will take this fight to the courts, but the public cannot remain silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the president of the United States.”
There was no official Washington announcement, as was the case when the governor of Illinois made a similar announcement on Saturday about the troops in his state that were activated.
A federal judge appointed by Trump in Oregon temporarily blocked the Trump administration plan to display Oregon National Guard in Portland to protect federal properties amid protests on Saturday, after Trump called the city “devastated by war.”
The American district judge Karin Immerut, who was appointed by Trump during the president's first mandate, said the relatively small protests that the city has seen did not justify the use of federalized forces and that allowing deployment could damage Oregon's state sovereignty.
“This country has a long -standing and fundamental resistance tradition to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion in civil affairs,” Immingut wrote. He later said: “This historical tradition is reduced to a simple proposal: this is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.”
Growing federal intervention
The deployment of national guards to Portland, Oregon, would mark the last escalation of the use of federal intervention by Trump in cities led by Democrats, which describes as abundant of the crime.
Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has sent or talked about sending troops to 10 cities, including Baltimore, Maryland; Memphis, Tennessee; The Columbia district; New Orleans, Louisiana; and the cities of California de Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Trump deployed soldiers on guard and marines of active duty in Los Angeles during the summer for the objections of Newsom, who demanded and won a temporary block after a federal judge discovered that the use of the president's guard was probably illegal.
The National Guard troops that patrolled the streets of Washington, DC, in August began to transport firearms and were authorized to use the force “as a last resort.”
On Saturday, Trump authorized the deployment of 300 troops from the Illinois National Guard to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago.
White House spokesman, Abigail Jackson, confirmed that the president authorized the members of the Illinois National Guard, citing what he called “violent disturbances and” continuous “illegality that local leaders have not stifled.
Trump has characterized both Portland and Chicago and cities full of crime and disturbances, qualifying the first “war zone” and suggesting that an apocalyptic force was needed to calm the problems in the latter.
Despite Trump's claims, crime in some of the largest American cities has recently decreased, with New Orleans seeing a particularly steep fall in 2025 that has it at the rate for the least number of murders in more than five decades.
